Excerpt speech Hazrat Maulana Shafee Okarvi [Rahmatul Laahi Alaieh]
It
is also stated in the hadees that Soorah Yaseen must be recited in the
graveyard and the sum total of reward that is given to the dead will be
recorded for the reciter. A Sahaaba asked the Holy Prophet (Peace be
upon him, his family and his companions) that, ‘before my parents died
we used to perform good deeds together, is there any virtuous act that I
can perform for them, now that they have died? The Holy Prophet (Peace
be upon him, his family and his companions) told him that when he reads
his compulsory (farz) prayer he should perform 2 or 4 cycles of
voluntary (nafil) prayer and dedicate the reward for his deceased
parents. The Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him, his family and his
companions) also told him to keep voluntary fasts and dedicate the
reward for his deceased parents. The Holy Prophet said that to perform
voluntary (nafil) prayer and to keep voluntary (nafil) fasts and
dedicate the reward for his deceased parents is to perform good deeds
for them. Holy Qur’aan, tasbih, takbir, zikr can be read for the
deceased. In a hadees it says that a 100 000 recitations of the
Testification of Faith (Kalimah) if read and dedicated to a deceased
Muslim, then even if he is being punished for sins or is in hell, then
Allaah Kareem will grant him forgiveness.