Women visiting the graveyard
Q:
1. Further to your advice that grave photography is undesirable, please advise in detail.
2. Are women forbidden to visit the graveyard? Under what circumstances are women forbidden to join salatul-Janazah?
Janaazah
Standing in front of the grave
Q: When a person visits a grave, on which side should he stand?
Reciting إنّا لله وإنّا إليه راجعون upon hearing the death of a non-Muslim
Q: Is it permissible to recite إنّا لله وإنّا إليه راجعون when learning of the demise of a non-muslim?
Conversing with the dead
Q: Are there known accounts of pious people having the ability to stand by graves and converse with the marhooms buried below?
Identifying a female dead body
Q: How do we identify an abandoned dead body of a girl whether she is muslim or not?
Taking a photo of a grave with the intention of showing the close family
Q: Am I allowed to take a picture of my father's grave on my phone to show my mother and sister? After showing it to them, I will delete the picture.
What to recite at the graveside
Q: What should one recite at a deceased persons grave as a means of thawaab for them if one cannot recite surah yaseen?
Being buried next to one's family members
Q: Is it compulsory that one has to be buried only next to one's own family members?
Performing Janaazah Salaah before the nikaah
Q: Which takes preference in Islam, a janaazah or Nikaah? Which should be done first?
Purchasing a grave in advance
Q: Some people reserve a piece of land for their graves in their lives so that after their demise their graves could remain near their passed away relatives. My question is that keeping this thing in mind, is it permissible to do so? If not than is it permissible for any other reason?