Purity: Funeral Rites and Mourning for a Muslim Executed for Drug Trafficking
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Purity: Funeral Rites and Mourning for a Muslim Executed for Drug Trafficking
English:
Question #249:
If a Muslim is sentenced to death in accordance with the law and approval of the judiciary on the charge of drug trafficking and the sentence is carried out:
i. Is it valid to offer the prayer for the dead upon him?
ii. What is the rule concerning participation in mourning ceremonies held for such a person as well as recitation of the Noble Qur’an and elegies of the Ahlul-Bayt (a.)?
Answer #249:
A Muslim who has been given the death sentence is like all other Muslims and all the rules applicable to them are applicable to him, including the Islamic rites pertaining to the dead.