Chapter Sixteen : Talqeen Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [A.

Chapter Sixteen : Talqeen Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [A.S.] said: " He who sells his next life for his present life in this world, loses both of them." [Qurar-ul-Hikam, pg. 274] Before covering the grave with wooden planks or stone, the person sitting in the grave with the deceased is to hold the right shoulder of the deceased with his / her right hand and the left shoulder of the deceased with his / her left hand.

During the recitation of the Talqeen, every time the name of the deceased is said, the person is to shake or jerk the shoulders of the deceased, as if to wake him/ her up. The recitation of Talqeen is to remind the deceased of the fundamentals of the true religion. A separate Talqeen is to be recited for the male and the female.