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There are so many sisters in the community who have never had the experience of seeing someone buried

and actually going through the process that we've been talking about of watching someone that you

knew go underground, the dirt coming on them, and the finality of that process as it takes place here.

And Subhanallah, there are many ways to experience death and a growing climate of materialism where people

are further diluted by life and we're certainly encountering so much that's harmful in terms of

greed and materialism and how we assign value to ourselves and to our lives. Encountering death

is so important and experiencing it, even in other ways, whether it's the loss of the dead body,

being there with someone when they pass away, being with the family, comforting the family,

there are other ways to encounter death and to be in close proximity to it that would soften the

hearts, but there is nothing quite like the graveyard. There's nothing quite like seeing a person

go underground or seeing the graveyard in general and being there. Now, traditionally speaking,

there is ichtilaf, there is a difference of opinion in regards to where women could participate

when it comes to the jinnaza, when it comes to the graveyard, when it comes to the burial. And I

want to unpack this just a little bit in Shah-a'ala and start off with what is permissible across

the board and what is prohibited across the board. So we start off with what is permissible,

attending Salat al-Jinnaza is unanimously permitted for women, even traditionally in Islamic law,

right? To go to the jinnaza and to pray the jinnaza to attend it in the masjid or on the lawn or

wherever it may be, to pray Salat al-Jinnaza and bid nillahi ta'ala to have the same reward,

the qilat that is the likeness of Uhud in good deeds. In shalt Allah ta'ala, that's a short

there. What is prohibited across the board, exceedingly prohibited in fact and causes his harm to the

dead. So it's not just that it is sinful for the person but could harm the dead, is ni'ahah,

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