{"id":3807,"date":"2012-01-08T12:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T12:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2012-01-08T12:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T12:18:51","slug":"attending-the-funeral-ceremony-of-a-non-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/attending-the-funeral-ceremony-of-a-non-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending the funeral ceremony of a Non-Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAttending the funeral ceremony of a non-Muslim\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<h1>\n\tAnswer<br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<p>\n\tIt is permissible to attend a funeral of a non-Muslim parent, relative, neighbour or colleague.&nbsp; However, it is not permissible to attend a religious funeral ceremony where they will be praying or singing hymns for the non-Muslim.&nbsp; This is because it is unlawful for Muslims to pray for non-Muslims.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the text of Bahrur Raiq it says &lsquo;And one may follow their (non-Muslim) funeral from afar (p.205 v.2). From this text it is indicating that you can attend their funeral but you should not be taking an active part in it hence, it will be best to avoid carrying a non-Muslims coffin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnly Allah Knows Best\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMohammed Tosir Miah\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDarul Ifta Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the funeral ceremony of a non-Muslim In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Answer It is permissible to attend a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}