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You can pray for your loved ones and friends and family and others to say, May Allah grant you blessings in the sense of health.

You are giving you goodness by protecting you from shaytan, yes, but giving you good health, that's my mother, that's my father, that's perhaps my brother or sister, my child,

whoever else it may be, my spouse for example.

So you are allowed to pray for them when it comes to sickness and illness, you want them to be cured, when you want anything while they are alive, you can pray for them.

The only restriction is after they've died, there's only one thing you cannot do and that is to pray to Allah to forgive them because they didn't believe in that Allah whom you are calling out to at all.

There goes, so Allah says, leave it between me and him. You don't get involved.

Subhan Allah, Arabic, I mean, I hope you understand this.

And this is why when Ibrahim, the Prophet Abraham may peace be upon him, Alayhi salam, made the dua, initially he was making a dua for forgiveness or he was promising to make a dua for forgiveness for his father.

And Allah says, you know what, you don't do that, leave it to us.

You know, he didn't believe in us, so what's the point of you asking on his behalf when he was supposed to do that himself?

He didn't believe in us, so he probably doesn't even want you to call out to me. Subhan Allah, leave it to Allah.

Allah is the most merciful, the most forgiving, the most just and the most wise.

And with those qualities of his, he knows what he's going to do.

I am not going to be able to do that which Allah has prohibited. Subhan Allah.

So people ask, am I allowed to say inna li-lahi wa inna ilaihi r-raj-i-own when a non-Muslim passes away?

The answer is yes, that's not a dua, that's not a supplication, that's a statement of truth.

What does it mean? It's a verse of the Quran, it means we belong to Allah.

We as in all the creatures of Allah, Muslim, non-Muslim and everything Allah's created, we belong to Allah.

And ultimately we're all going to return to Allah, that's all you are saying.

So there is nothing wrong, don't be conned by people who tell you, you can't say that because these people are not Muslims.

You can say that. Inna li-lahi wa inna ilaihi r-raj-i-own is a verse of the Quran.

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