What to Say After The Burial
Once the deceased is buried, one
should ask Allah to forgive him and to make firm his answers to questioning in
the grave. The Prophet used to tell those present at the grave: “Ask Allah to
forgive your deceased brother, and to make his answers firm, for he is being
questioned now.” Such supplication is good for the deceased. Allah rewards them
through it.
As the Prophet said, we can say
these prayers: /allaahumma-ghfir li-hayyinaa
wa-mayyitinaa, wa-Sagheerinaa wa-kabeerinaa, wa-dakarinaa
wa-unthaanaa, wa-shaahidinaa wa-ghaa-ibinaa/ allaahumma
man ahyaitahu minnaa
fa-ahyihi alal-eemaan, wa-man
tawaffaitahu minnaa fa-tawaffahu
alal-Islaam/ allaahumma laa
tahrimnaa ajrah(u), wa-laa
tuDillanaa ba’dah/
Translation
(O Allah! Forgive our living, our
dead, our young, our old, our males and our females; forgive those of us who
are present, and those who are absent. O Allah! Whomsoever among us You let
live, make him live in faith, and whomsoever You cause to die, let him die in
Islam. O Allah! Do not deprive us of our reward [for supplicating for him], and
lead us not astray after him).
Should you speak about a dead
Muslim, it has to be about his good qualities. The Prophet says, “Do not call
the dead bad names, for they have gone to what they have already done.”
