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legal/lawful manner is by means of the use of complete sentences

( ُﷲ ﱠ ِ ٰ ِ َ لا إ ل َه إ لا ), that is sentences that according to fiilmu naḥwu (the

element of a sentence) is already included within the criteria of the
word used by the heart, producing blessings and bringing the self

closer to Allāh, whereas abbreviating/shortening it with a single

name has no example whatsoever and is baseless.
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17. There is no example from the Messenger of Allāh  of reading

a specific Sūrah like Sūrah Al Fātiḥah, Sūrah Yā-Sīn and

others, and then submitting (presenting) it ot a sick person, or
to a person who is dead. There has never been a single ṣaḥābī

who submitted the reading (blessings of) Sūrah Al Fātiḥah to a
dead person and likewise also (even more so) to the Messenger

of Allāh . (Refer Al Baḥth wa’l Istiqrā√ fī Bidafiil Qurrā√, p.

50).

According to Al Ḥafīẓ Ibnu Kathīr ﷲا ﻪﲪر, Imām Ash-Shāfifiī ﻪﲪر
ﷲا took istinbāṭ (elicited) from ayāh 39 of Sūrah An-Najm (53):

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And that man can have nothing but what he does (good or bad),
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He said: “That the reading of Al Qur√ān to a person who is

already dead, the gift of its blessing will not eventuate, because that
matter is not from the their deeds and also not from their endeavors,

174 Fiqhul Adfiiyah wa’l Adhkār (Al Qismul Awwal), pp. 196-200 – DR. fiAbdur-Razzaq bin fiAbdul
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Muḥsin al fiAbbad, 1 edition, Dār Ibni √Affan, 1419 H.
175 Sūrah An-Najm (53), ayāh 39.
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