Drownned....

AmarFaisal said:

A lot of mentioning of this in the threads has led me to ask this question.
Though everything abt a drowned person's fate is already mentioned in the many threads in this forum. However, this question is abt my cousin and brother in law, for no one has done anything after his untimely death (if it is).

I'l have to go into the events b4 I ask the question that still troubles the minds of many in our family.

My cousin brother, lost his life nearly 5 yrs back to the furious waters of the Karachi sea. Many of our members here (are related to Pakistan) know that during the months of August the sea of Karachi is like a mponster ready to engulf anything and everything. My cousin went out on his birthday with his friends. HIs friends never could explain what actually happened. They were in a trauma. But later in time, some of them told what they thought had happened:

They said that while they were swimming they heard shouts of their drowning partner/friend. They went to save him n then suddenly there was a big wave above their heads. The one friend who was drownng was pushed out of the water. When they came out , they realised that Majid (my cousin) wasn't there. They looked around n found his belongings on the shore. They looked in the water n as some of them said, they just saw a hand in water.

That's the end.

Noone saw him drowning, no body found for months to come. We assume him dead.

The question is:

There has been no namaz-e-janaza given for him uptodate. As his father, my uncle, says his son is alive and will come back. Nobody wants to hurt the father. The mother, my aunt, calls for him in her sickness, but says that she feels in heart that he's dead.

There r a lot of stories associated to his disappearance.

Anyway, what should we do to give him peace? If the namaz-e-janaza is not performed, does that mean he's not in peace? I know abt the ghaibana namaz-e-janaza for ppl whose body isn't found. But if the parents don't let it be done, what should we do?

I often tell my husband that he n his elder brother should perform the namaz-e-janaza. But they don't feel in their heart to do so. Does this absence of namaz-e-janaza effect my cousin's after life??

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Raashid ibn Hubaysh narrated that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) entered upon ‘Ubaadah ibn al-Saamit when he was sick and said, “Do you know who is a shaheed (martyr) in my ummah?” The people remained silent, then ‘Ubaadah said, “Help me to sit up.” They helped him to sit up, then he said, “O Messenger of Allaah, (is it) the patient one who seeks reward from Allaah for his patience?” The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Then the martyrs among my ummah would be very few. Being killed for the sake of Allaah is martyrdom, the plague is martyrdom, drowning is martyrdom, stomach disease is martyrdom, and if a woman dies during the post-partum period, her child will drag her to Paradise by his umbilical cord.” The umbilical cord is that which is cut by the midwife when the child is born. The hadeeth was narrated by Imaam Ahmad in his Musnad with a saheeh isnaad. (al-Musnad, 3/489). There is a corroborating report narrated by Maalik (1/233) and Abu Dawood, 3/482).

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