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    Question ID: 558Country: Pakistan

    Title: Offering Namaz-e-Janaza in Masjid is "Mukrooh-e-Tehrimi". So One shall refrain to offer namaze Janaza if it is being held in Premises of Mosque?

    Question: Reference question id 380. Offering Namaz e Janaza in Masjid is " Mukrooh e Tehrimi". So One shall refrain to offer namaze Janaza if it is being held in Premises of Mosque.( Even if janaza is kept outside but people are inside the mosque)? Please write in detail.

    Answer ID: 558

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 576/J)

     

    If the Janazah (dead body) is outside mosque and the people who pray Salat-ul-Janazah are inside moque then also it is Makrooh-e-Tahrimi (highly undesirable). Therefore, one should not offer Salat-ul-Janazah with them:

    قال الرافعي في تقریراتہ 1/122: و من حضرھا في المسجد لا یصلیھیا فیہ

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India