Muslims, do you celebrate ancestoral worship?.?

Question

Celebration like a sumptious feast at the funeral, and counting the days thenon the 7th, 14th, 100th anniversary and so on. Each day different foods are offered according to number of days the dearly departed been buried. Then you pay the imam and the jama'ah to pray for the departed soul?.
And also, visit your ancestor's or parents cemetary on Eids and offered prayers and Qur'an recital?
Please help I'm confused.

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My point is were you ASKED by God or Prophet to pray for others except your parents?
When a muslim died he left behind only 3 things. Charity, Knowledge and pious offsprings who would pray for him/her. Are you in any way pay incentives for those who pray for your loved ones?
Is there any devine basis for praying on the cemetary?

Answer 1

some muslims do that , BUT it isnot from islam at all.

in islam the only feasts we celebrate are eid eladha and eid elfitr.

but the bad things that happenes in them like visiting the graves and sos and soo , are also not from islam.

muslim's rituals in funerals:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546632

i wish my answer was helpful to u , in someways.

peace.

Answer 2

Muslims don't have actual rules about this. They don't worship their ancestors in any way. There are no rituals for this explained in the Qur'an. They don't do feasts at the funerals either.

But Muslims look up to their prophet Mohammad and try to live his way. He is considered as the perfect example of Islamic life. Upon deaths of his family members or close friends, Mohammed often prays for the deceased in some days. Like the 7th, 40th 100th, Eids, and some others, which are told to be the best times to give prayers to. Usually they have Qur'an recital during the rituals.

Then it becomes the tradition of Muslims to have rituals on those days. But still, the purpose of the ritual is not to worship the deceased, but to pray for them. This way, Muslims would spend some time praying for their loved ones and not forgetting them. Muslims also believe that they could ease the deceased's pain, if any, in after life by praying for them.

Answer 3

the dead should be buried as soon as posible , to honer it, then there are only three days for people to come and visit the family who had the loss for condolonsess, some of the people will stay only for half an hourand some will stay for the whole day, but at luch time or dinner if there is guests we should offer food for them (this is something is done by muslims wether in sad days or normal days) we should offer ur visitors from the food that we eat and even the best of it..this is the islamic teachings ...in so many cultures they have the 40th day but it traditions from the society not from religion it self...

at the burial the shaikh will recite the quran for money but it's something from people not in islam ,in islam poeple should read what they know from the quran , but people often wants to do the best for the deceaced by reciting the whole quran for merci from god.

visting the cemetary on eids this is all traditions, we should visit them any time we want and read (alfateha) and leave ...but in some places where people are not educated for example in egypt they cook food and go and sit beside the cemetary and spend all day playing and eating and this is not accepted in islam

some people like to go for the cemetry on eids just to be with the loved ones who passed and read quran (they read it) paying the imam I think it is most common in egypt..because some (the imam) live in the cemetary to burry the dead poeple and read quran for them its their job., but we dont have 7 days or 14 or even 100th...

what we should do for the dead in islam is to pray for the person, and there is something called sadaqa gareya wcich something the son or daughter do for the deceaced is to pay amount of money to do something with it which help poeple in need like for my self I shared with medical equipment for kidney departments in areas in cairo which they can not afford , or cancer hospitals so the dead benefits from this every time a ptient is treated the benefit goes to the dead person as ( good deeds)

some destribute quran in mosques so every time a person read from it the benifet goes to the dead person, some put a water cooler in the street for poeple who get thursty and don' t have money to drink .some build mosques (but it cost a lot) and usualy the person build it before he dies for sadaqa gareya. some people pay what ever they can to build water wels in poor area such as bangaldesh or build a mosque there, and so on any good thing to do to help the poeple. hope i did explain a little ...