The supplication of the funeral prayer in one’s mother tongue

Question

In the funeral prayer for an adult, the following supplication is recited after the third takbir: [ar]اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِحَيِّنَا…[/ar] If someone does not know this supplication in Arabic, may the follower (muqtadi) [recite] a translation of this supplication in his mother tongue, such as Urdu or Bengali? For example: “O Allah, forgive all our living and all our dead” — may he [recite] a translation of the whole supplication or not?

Answer

Reciting it in this way will not invalidate the prayer either; however, it is better to recite some supplication in Arabic itself, for example: [ar]رَبَّنَآ ءَاتِنَا فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ[/ar] “Our Lord, give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire” (Surah al-Baqara,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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