Chapter 122
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 122
What to say when a bier passes or on seeing one
Arabic
Romanisation
Subḥāna-l-Ḥayyi-lladhī lā yamūt.
Lā ilāha illa-llāhu-l-Ḥayyu-lladhī lā yamūt.
Context
IT IS MUSTAḤABB to say: ‘Glory be to the Living, Who does not die.’ Al-Qāḍī Imam Abū al-Maḥāsin ar-Rūyānī, one of our colleagues, says in his book al-Baḥr: “It is mustaḥabb to supplicate saying: ‘There is no god but Allah, the Living Who does not die.’ It is mustaḥabb to make du‘ā’ for [the deceased] and to praise him if he is entitled to it; but one should not speak generally and in vague terms in praise of him.”