{"id":4183,"date":"2016-01-01T02:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T06:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2016-01-01T02:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T06:21:32","slug":"counting-40-steps-maiyit-corpse-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"Counting 40 Foot-Steps When Taking a Maiyit (corpse) for Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Question:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When lifting up the Janazah (corpse) of a deceased, the people of out locality have this custom of counting 40 footsteps and then gifting the deceased its rewards. Is there any permissibility for this from a Sharee perspective?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Answer:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counting the footsteps and gifting their rewards in this manner has no Sharee basis. It is wajib to abandon this custom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Allah knows best<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Hazrat Mufti) Muhmmad Taqi Usmani (May Allah preserve him)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fatawa Usmani<\/span> Vol.1 Pg.564<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: When lifting up the Janazah (corpse) of a deceased, the people of out locality have this custom of counting 40 footsteps and then gifting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janazah-funeral","wpcat-94-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}