How to Supplicate For The Deceased at a Funeral Prayer
Offering a funeral prayer for a dead
person, the Prophet was heard supplicating:
/allaahumma-ghfir lah(u),
wa-rhamh(u), wa-aafihi, wa-anh(u),
wa-wassi mudkhalah(u), wa-ghsilhu
bilmaa-I wath-thalji wal-barad(i),
wa-naqqihi min-alkhaTaayaa kamaa
naqqaitath-thawbal-abyaDa
minad-danas(i), wa-abdilh(u) daraan
khairam-min ahlih(i), wa-zawjan
khairam-min zawjih(i), wa-adkhilhul-janna(ta), wa-a’idhu
min adaabil-qabr(i), wa-min
adaabin-naar/
Translation
(“O Allah! Forgive him; have mercy
on him; heal him; pardon him; be generous to him; make his entrance
comfortable; wash him with water, snow and hail, and purify him from sins as a
white garment is washed clean of dirt; give him a home better than his home (on
earth), a family better that his family, and a wife better than his wife; take
him into the Heavens, and protect him from the trial of the grave and the
torture of Hell Fire.”)
