The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.556- As a measure of obligatory precaution, perfumes like musk, ambergris and other perfumes should not be applied to the dead body and should not also be mixed with camphor when camphorating.

Issue No.568- It is makrūh to perform prayer on a dead body a number of times. Rather it is not permissible as an obligatory precaution for to offer the prayer several times. However, if the dead person was a learned and pious one, it is not makrūh to do so.

Issue No.574- It is obligatory to bury a dead body in the ground, deep enough that its smell does not come out and wild animals do not dig it out. However, if there is a danger of such animals digging it out, then the grave should be reinforced with bricks, etc.

Issue No.602- It is not permissible to delay the burial of a dead body if it results in its disrespect and desecration.

Issue No.591- It is not permitted to scratch one’s face or body and hurt oneself for the death of someone. Also, it is not permissible to tear one’s clothes on the death of anyone except on the death of one’s father and brother.

Issue No.593- The obligatory precaution is that while weeping over the death of any person, one’s voice should not be very loud.

Issue No.598- There is no problem in digging up a grave if one is sure that the dead body has decayed and turned into dust. However, digging up the graves of the descendants of the Holy Imams (as), the martyrs, the religious scholars and the pious persons is not allowed even though they may have been buried long ago.

Issue No.600- When the deceased has willed that his body be buried in a certain place, but it is buried elsewhere, it is not permissible to dig up the grave to transfer the dead body to the place he had willed.

Issue No.601- When the deceased has willed that after the burial, his grave should be exhumed and his body be transferred to a sacred place or elsewhere, acting upon this will is not permissible as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.604- The abovementioned rule applies to those who have been killed in the battlefield, i.e., they have died before the Muslims reach them. However, if the Muslims reach them while they are still alive or they are moved out of the battlefield and taken to a hospital or elsewhere and then they die, although they have the reward of the martyrs, the abovementioned ruling will not apply.

Issue No.605- In modern wars in which the battlefields are vast, sometimes extending up to several miles, and enemy bullets and suchlike are reaching an immense distance, all of those areas where soldiers gather are considered as the battlefield. However, if the enemy kills people by bombarding them away from the war fronts, the abovementioned rules will not apply to them.

Issue No.606- If for some reason a martyr’s body is found nude, it should be shrouded and buried without ghusl.