Some points to consider:
The funeral is not for boasting or celebrations or gold and diamond, but is an incident to give lesson to man about his inevitable fate: death, and that he will sooner or later die when his body will decay and his soul will go to his Creator to receive his reward or punishment.
>> It is a time to glorify God and ask His forgiveness, but it is not for glorifying the dead man or woman.
>> Nothing will benefit the dying man or woman, from celebrations and decoration which will give satisfaction to people of that king or queen, and it is useless and of no value.
>> There will be no titles for the dead in the Afterlife: like Queen or King or Lord .. etc and no consideration of person.
>> Nothing will benefit man in the Afterlife but only his righteous work and charity in addition to his belief in God as One God with no other god besides Him and no son or parents to God Almighty, and only that man should restrict his devotion to God alone.
>> The thing that may benefit the dying man may only be the praying of God for the dying man to forgive him and show him mercy if the man is a monotheist devoting himself to God alone.
>> If man is not a believer in God alone and in all His messengers including Moses, Jesus and Mohammed, and he believes in the Quran in addition to the Torah and the Gospel, then such dying man will lose in the Afterlife.
>> Honoring the dead is the hastening in his funeral and burying.
>> The best thing in words in the funeral is to say loudly [and secretly] :
God is Most Great,
No god but only God alone
Glory be to God
Praise is due to God.
God - be glorified - said in the Quran 10: 7-10
[God – be glorified – started to dispraise those who ‘deny and disbelieve’, and to threaten them with the punishment, and so He said:]
(7. Those who do not look for encountering Our [Paradise and prosperity in the Next Life],
and are well-pleased with this life of the World,
and are content with it,
and who pay no heed to Our ‘signs and revelations’.
8. Such [men] will have the Fire as their home [on Doomsday], according to what [sins] they committed [in the life of the World.]
[Then God – be glorified – started to describe the believers and what He has prepared for them in the Next Life:]
9. Those who believe and do righteous [deeds]: their Lord will guide them because of their believing [in God and His messenger], with rivers flowing below their [trees] in the Gardens of Prosperity.
10. Their prayer in [Paradise] will be: "Glory be to You, our God";
their greeting [of each other:] will be "Salam [to you!]
and they conclude their prayer [by saying:] "Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds.")
The detailed explanation here:
The funeral is not for boasting or celebrations or gold and diamond, but is an incident to give lesson to man about his inevitable fate: death, and that he will sooner or later die when his body will decay and his soul will go to his Creator to receive his reward or punishment.
>> It is a time to glorify God and ask His forgiveness, but it is not for glorifying the dead man or woman.
>> Nothing will benefit the dying man or woman, from celebrations and decoration which will give satisfaction to people of that king or queen, and it is useless and of no value.
>> There will be no titles for the dead in the Afterlife: like Queen or King or Lord .. etc and no consideration of person.
>> Nothing will benefit man in the Afterlife but only his righteous work and charity in addition to his belief in God as One God with no other god besides Him and no son or parents to God Almighty, and only that man should restrict his devotion to God alone.
>> The thing that may benefit the dying man may only be the praying of God for the dying man to forgive him and show him mercy if the man is a monotheist devoting himself to God alone.
>> If man is not a believer in God alone and in all His messengers including Moses, Jesus and Mohammed, and he believes in the Quran in addition to the Torah and the Gospel, then such dying man will lose in the Afterlife.
>> Honoring the dead is the hastening in his funeral and burying.
>> The best thing in words in the funeral is to say loudly [and secretly] :
God is Most Great,
No god but only God alone
Glory be to God
Praise is due to God.
God - be glorified - said in the Quran 10: 7-10
[God – be glorified – started to dispraise those who ‘deny and disbelieve’, and to threaten them with the punishment, and so He said:]
(7. Those who do not look for encountering Our [Paradise and prosperity in the Next Life],
and are well-pleased with this life of the World,
and are content with it,
and who pay no heed to Our ‘signs and revelations’.
8. Such [men] will have the Fire as their home [on Doomsday], according to what [sins] they committed [in the life of the World.]
[Then God – be glorified – started to describe the believers and what He has prepared for them in the Next Life:]
9. Those who believe and do righteous [deeds]: their Lord will guide them because of their believing [in God and His messenger], with rivers flowing below their [trees] in the Gardens of Prosperity.
10. Their prayer in [Paradise] will be: "Glory be to You, our God";
their greeting [of each other:] will be "Salam [to you!]
and they conclude their prayer [by saying:] "Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds.")
The detailed explanation here:
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