Funerals

Question: A man found several graves in his farm when he dug deep with a loader. What should he do with them?

Question: Guides also encounter in some areas graves by house doorways, and the residents have no route except across those graves. They ask the guides about this—what should they answer? Should those graves be relocated to empty places? Should the...

Question: What is your view on raising graves with construction, and on placing marble plaques inscribed with the deceased’s name on the grave? We have heard much talk about this.

Question: A highway passed through a valley between two mountains. The engineers plotted its course through a cemetery. After we tried to divert the route from over the cemetery, the engineers shifted it slightly but were forced to pass over...

Question: If the deceased bequeathed that he be buried in a particular place, or that a particular man should perform the funeral prayer over him, must his heirs fulfill his bequest? Is it permissible for them to contravene it by...

Question: Is it permissible to pray over a deceased person who used to be lax about insulting others and exposing the thigh?

Question: A woman married and was steadfast upon piety. Then she died suddenly, and people began circulating talk that she had drunk poison. Before her death, she had asked some of her relatives for forgiveness. Is it permissible to supplicate...

A questioner asked me: his father is ill and near death, and he has persisted in corrupt beliefs—anthropomorphizing Allah, Exalted is He, hating the People of the Household (Ahl al-Bayt) and showing enmity toward them, and showing allegiance to the...

Question: Is one who kills himself by mistake, outside of battle, washed? And likewise one killed by mistake?

Question: A man attacked another and killed him without right, though there had been quarrel and dispute between them. Is the slain person to be washed or not?