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Is it permissible to open a Twitter account for a deceased person, with the aim of having the reward of supplications and pleas for forgiveness written for them reach them?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The reward for acts of worship reaches the deceased, even if they did not perform them before their death. And the work of Dawah (Islamic propagation) pages is a righteous deed with ongoing reward, so there is no harm in creating a Dawah page for the deceased to receive its reward. There is nothing to prevent the creation of a page in the name of the deceased to pray for mercy upon them and seek forgiveness for them; the default rule for this is permissibility. Indeed, the Companions would pray for mercy upon the deceased when some of their virtues were mentioned.

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