
Funeral prayer should be performed while. “I have been working in the mosque for the last 25 years and this was a ploy to oust me from the post by a group of people,” Rauf said. Assalam-o-Alikum Explains below the procedure of funeral prayer or Janaza salah (mayyith namaskaram in malayalam). Believers of Islam should never follow the path of these kinds of people”, he said. All I said was that “Kasab got the punishment he deserved. That it was the first Friday after he was hanged I used his case as an example to advise the juma not to lead such a life,’’ Rauf said. “I didn’t pray for the salvation of Kasab’s soul.

Rauf said he was being made a scapegoat of a tussle between two groups in the managing committee. When TOI contacted him, khatib Rauf maintained that he was being victimized. But before they could issue the suspension order, khatib Rauf offered his resignation. The committee members immediately decided to suspend him. There was instant protest from the juma,’’ Rehman said. But to our surprise and shock khatib Rauf prayed for Kasab. “Every Friday we say a prayer for the souls. “Khatib Rauf did include the name of Ajmal Kasab in the prayer for the departed souls after the namaz,’’ he told TOI. President of the Judge Mukku mosque managing committee Abdul Rehman also confirmed the incident. An investigation is on,” a source in the police told TOI. Namaz-e-Mayyit should be offered after the dead body has been given Ghusl, Hunnut and Kafan and if it is offered before or during the performance of these acts, it does not suffice, even if it is due to forgetfulness or on account of not knowing the rule. Though the incident had occurred on November 23, its details trickled out only after police began an investigation on Friday when it, once again, “became a talking point at the juma’’. Khatib Abdul Rauf, however, preferred to resign from the post than wait for action against him following strong protest from the juma (Friday congregation) that had assembled at the Judge Mukku mosque at Thrikkakkara in Kochi’s outskirts.

KOCHI: The managing committee of a Jama’at mosque here has initiated disciplinary action against its khatib (preacher leading Friday prayers) for allegedly praying for salvation of the soul of Ajmal Kasab two days after the terrorist was hanged in Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail.
