Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 262
262 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 It is not permissible. Those who cannot attend the Funeral Prayer, may supplicate in their own accord, or offer the Funeral Prayer in absentia. ¹ 26 APRIL 1907 A Matter of Jurisprudence During Maghrib Prayer, due to the large congregation, the voice of the Imam could not reach the people standing in the last few rows. Therefore, a person [the mukabbir] in the middle rows, as per the cus- tom, repeated the takbir calls of the Imam in a loud voice. During the last rakat of the Prayer, when the congregation was sitting [in Qadah] and had finished reciting the at-Tahiyyāt [prayer] and the Durūd Sharif [invocation of blessings upon the Holy Prophetsas], and prior to the Imam saying salām at the end of the Prayer, the mukabbir made a mistake and called out the end salām. The congregation standing in the back rows followed the mukabbir in saying the end salām and some even began offering their Sunnah Prayer. Thereafter, the Imam called out the end salām, and the mukab- bir, who had realised his mistake, also called out the end salām again. At this point, the congregation who had finished their Prayer before- hand inquired whether their Prayer was complete or whether they should offer their Prayer again. Şahibzādah Mirza Mahmud Ahmad who himself was praying in the last few rows and had recited the end salām before the Imam, said: This issue had already been presented to the Promised Messiahas and His Holiness had said: 'If it so happens in the last rakat of the Prayer, and they have finished reciting at-Tahiyyāt, then the Prayer of the congregation is complete. There is no need to offer the Prayer again. 1. Badr, vol. 6, no. 19, p. 5, dated 9 May 1907