Monday, March 01, 2010

recently at school, Ive been teaching the Year 9 about rites of passage and in particular death, last week i was talking about washing a dead body in Islam (Ghusl) and i asked them a question?
'a man dies in a place where there are no other men, and the woman present are not related to him, would Ghusl be performed on this man?'

before asking this question i had already explained what Ghusl was and how to perform it on the deceased.

hands started shooting up and i was given very different answers but not the correct one, then one girl in particular became very excited and kept saying 'choose me miss, i know the answer, please choose meeeeeeee'

i loved her enthusiasm so i asked to to go ahead and tell me the answer.

she said in a very loud and confident manner:

'well basically one of the woman would have to marry the dead corpse and then she could perform ghusl on him because she would be married to him!!!!!!!!'

loooool

i couldn't help but laugh...

funny thing was she was being very serious.

the other girls just stared at her

and one bright girl called her a necrophilist, which i had to tell her of for but then the whole class wanted to know what one was aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrhhhhhh.

teachings great....

6 comments:

Brave Heart said...

sallam WA
wlahi me myself i dont know the answer. I think it was difficult question to them. Im now burrning to know the correct answer

Lebeeya said...

LOL

This made me laugh very hard.

I assume the correct answer is, since men have become extinct in your example, the women should perform ghusl on him.

Correct me?

white african said...

salam brave and lebeeya the answer is ......

they wouldnt perform ghusl on him but they would perform tayamum.

difficult question ;)

Lebeeya said...

Really? I never knew that. How about the other way around? A woman dies in a place where there are no other woman and the man present are not related to her? Do they also preform tayamim instead of ghusl?

white african said...

yep thats correct :)

Emma said...

Salam Alaykom. I thought about that, but wasnt sure :) tayamum. Seems like a great lesson.....