Dawoodi Bohra Forum

i apologize for the late response. I checked the books for the past week and most of the scholars say this about the subject.

the fact that money is allowed to be taken for namaz is based on two introductions. The first one is the fact that you are allowed to pray on behalf of a deceased believer ...

I see your point from an ethical stand point. However, there are a few issues that do arise. It is obligatory on the eldest son to make up all the lapsed prayers of his parents, so if a persons parents died and the parents missed for example some 20 years of prayers, it becomes difficult to fulfil ...

You are correct about what you said about the hadiths. However, there are other hadiths that say if you are doing anything on someone's behalf you can take money. I will collect these hadiths for you and post them as soon as I can.

Salam
Interesting topic, I contacted the site after seeing this post yesterday and I asked them what is the basis of this. apparently, there are hadiths that discuss this issue so it's not baseless so as to say. They posted an article yesterday with four narrations which are deemed correct in ...