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Sister Shamima emails and asks that my father passed away

and I wanted to attend his funeral and also go to his actual Janaza but then I was told

that it is haram for a lady to go to the funerals and to attend the Janaza can you

please shed some light on this issue? So we begin by stating that the general no real he lahim,

the sall

a gahad the kriya

poth to mla t'n'

so we began by stating that the general rule is that any ruling that comes in our

Sharia applies to both genders unless we find explicit evidence that this is a gender specific issue.

And when it comes to the Janaza, it is well known that in early Islam,

our prophecy system initially forbade people from visiting the graveyards.

And then he asked Allah's permission to visit his mother's grave, Amina, and then he said that

I used to forbid you from visiting graveyards.

Then Allah allowed me to visit my mother's grave.

So now I am telling you, go and visit graves because it reminds you of the Achira. So this is a generic ruling right now.

Both men and women that right now we say it is generic. And there's another Hadith as well,

the famous Hadith of Abu Haaradi Allahhuan,

that whoever follows the Janaza of a Muslim with Iman and expecting Allah's reward,

that that person who continues until there is going to be a duffin, the person will come back with two

mountains of good deeds.

And each of these mountains is like the mount of Uyghud. So whoever follows in Janaza until the burial takes place and then comes back will get the reward of two large mountains.

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