Salam brothers and sisters, I hope the title catch your eyes. I have an important message to all you that converted to Islam, first, alhamdulillah, second, prepare for your death.
My father converted into Islam years ago when he was around 45yo, he already have a big non Muslim families, I have both Christians and Buddhists siblings. I'm his first Muslim son, and I don't have the courage to argue with anyone from his non Muslim family, since they are from the first wife.
Today my father passed away, it horrified me, not because he's no longer with us, but what am I supposed to do with his dead body!? I have a responsibility to bring him into a Muslim grave, but what if the Christian family object? What if the Buddhist wanna held a Buddhist funeral? My father had not leave any words about which grave he wants to go into, given that everyone believe in their own religion, it's fair that we want to hold funeral according to our religion, not the others.
I'm grateful that my brothers and sisters respect that my father is a Muslim, and handed me the responsibility to deal with his funeral. We had just buried him few hours ago. However, it was almost asr when he was burird, my father passed away around Fajr, we were waiting for his non Muslims family members to travel, and my aunt requested for injections so his body won't rot that soon, almost everyone doesn't seem to mind, but they handed the decision to my Buddhist brother, but he was against it, stating Muslim would bury the dead within a day, and the injection wouldn't be necessary. Also, I also heard someone suggesting to keep his body for 3 days, that's actually quite typical for other religion.
Brothers and sisters that joined Islam, please do tell your family which grave you are going. If so happen that your non Muslim family had disagreement, how many days do you think you'll have to wait before you're buried? Would you be fine if you have a non Muslim funeral? How would your Muslim family live with that guilt? Also, for one moment, put the thought of Islam is the one true religion aside, and stand on those non Muslims' foot, do you not think that they would assume their religion is correct as well? How would it make your non Muslim family felt?
Again, please prepare for your death. I was lucky, but would you like to take that risk?
That's all brothers and sisters, and if you read all the way here, would you guys be kind to donate al fatihah to my passed away father? Thank you. WaSalam.
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