{"id":1896,"date":"2019-07-16T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:33:51","slug":"how-is-a-muslim-buried-out-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"How is a Muslim buried out at sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>How is a Muslim buried out at sea?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Kindly advise how a muslim is buried out at sea?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> A Muslim who passes away at sea should be given Ghusal, shrouded in a Kafan and Salaatul Janaazah should be performed for him\/her.<\/p>\n<p>If the ship is far out at sea and there is a fear that the body will decompose thereby causing harm to others on the ship, the body should be weighted and buried at sea.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the ship is close to land or there are facilities on board whereby the body can be preserved, the deceased\u2019s body should be buried on land. <strong>(Tahtaawi 1\/613)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is a Muslim buried out at sea? Q. Kindly advise how a muslim is buried out at sea? A. A Muslim who passes away at<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janazah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}