Can visiting the father's grave, reciting the Quran, and giving charity please him after his death if he was displeased during his life?
Filial piety towards parents after their death can be achieved by praying for them, seeking forgiveness for them, fulfilling their pledges, honoring their friends, and maintaining kinship ties related to them. Visiting graves and supplicating for the deceased for forgiveness and mercy are permissible, as the parent benefits from this. This is supported by the hadith: "When a person dies, all his deeds come to an end except for three: a continuous charity, knowledge from which benefit is derived, or a righteous child who supplicates for him." The deceased also benefits from charity given on their behalf, by the consensus of Muslims, and from performing Hajj on their behalf, sacrificing on their behalf, emancipating slaves on their behalf, and from supplications and seeking forgiveness for them. As for reciting [Quran] over the grave, it was not known among the Salaf, and it was disliked by Abu Hanifa, Malik, and Ahmad in most narrations. If you strive in supplication, seeking forgiveness, and giving charity on behalf of your father, along with repentance, we hope that you will thereby achieve filial piety towards your father.
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