Janazah for the one who commits suicide
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Janazah for the one who commits suicide
Fatawa Answered by Shaykh Uthaymeen
Question: Is it permissible to pray over the one who commits suicide, and is it permissible to shroud him? Also, is it permissible to bury him in the graveyard of the Muslims? And is he considered an apostate from Islam?
Shaykh Uthaymeen: The one who commits suicide, the person who kills himself—and with Allah refuge is sought—it is the same whether he commits suicide with a machine or tool, or by fire, or by jumping from something high or by any other means, the point is that he kills himself. And it has been authenticated that the Prophet said:
Whoever kills himself with something; then verily he will be tortured with it in the fire of Hell, remaining therein forever.
We ask Allah for safety and security. But despite this, he is prayed upon because he is a Muslim. But if the Imaam—and he is the leader over the general populace—or the Imaam of the Masjid, the one who has repute in the community, if he himself decides he will not pray over him, to make an example to others; then there is nothing wrong with him not praying over this person, and he tells the others to pray over him. And he is buried with the Muslims because he is a Muslim.
