Purity: Using a Personal Shroud for Worship and Burial: Is It Permissible?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Purity: Using a Personal Shroud for Worship and Burial: Is It Permissible?
English:
Question #231:
A person buys a shroud for himself and he always spreads it out to offer obligatory and mustaḥabb prayers and to recite the Noble Qur’an on, and at the time of death it is used for shrouding him. Is this permissible? Is it correct from the Islamic point of view for a person to buy for himself a shroud and write Qur’anic verses on it with the sole purpose of being shrouded in it after death?
Answer #231:
There is no problem in doing any of the things stated.