Janaazah

Q: Is it permissible to attend a janaazah of a ghair muqallid (a person who does not follow a madhhab) deceased who was close to me?

Q: In Islam, is offering condolences limited to three days? If a person passes away on Monday and is buried on Tuesday, how will one calculate three days? From the day he passed away or the day he was buried?

Q: Would ziyarat for the deceased be performed within the boundary of the qabarstan? Is it not an ibadat of ziyarat if I prayed from outside the boundary?

Q: My grandfather recently passed away and he was not a Muslim. As a Muslim am I allowed to enter the church to attend the memorial service?

Q: My grandmother has recently passed away and my uncle will soon be holding a 40 days khatam with a meal. I strongly do not believe in this however my father is insistent we attend. We have had numerous arguments about this matter and I’m not sure what to do. I may not be a perfect Muslim so he uses this against me.

Q: Please advise on having 3, 10 and 40 days after a mayyit.

Is it also true that the rooh (soul) leaves the house on the 40th day?

Q: There is a qabrastan in our town which runs under the management of our masjid and I work as a supervisor there. As we have limited space in our qabrastan we have to refill the mud every 5 to 10 years because we only have one qabrastan in our town. We have tried a lot to find another place for a qabrastan but unfortunately we were not able to find one because of different circumstances as its a hindu nation and the percentage of Muslims in total is only 4.3%.

We have made 3 gates in a boundary to enter the qabristan and we have to make stairs and pillars. Few months ago, a person passed away and was burried in the same qabristan and unfortunately the pillar that we were making has been placed slightly on his qabr but not totally on it.

We are facing a lot of issues regarding this so can you please inform us if shariah allows us to do this since the work is almost finished and its very hard to break down the pillars again. 

Q: Recently a woman's husband had passed away and on a ladies group we are all on someone asked for those who wished to read a para or more. She used the word "khatham". To my knowledge it is bid'ah as the Qur'an is for reading, pondering, listening, learning from (amongst other things) and not for giving reward to others as there has been nothing to show Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa salaam) or his Companions did it.

Please advice if it is correct or not.

Q: Can you tell me good zikr for my forefathers and for my parents, something I can do in this world so they may get good place in the Aakhirah.

Q: Can salaatul tasbeeh be prayed with the intention of conveying its reward to someone else?