by Afeez Adekunle Lateef

Created on: January 03, 2010   Last Updated: January 06, 2010

The almighty Allah says in the holy quran that every human being must taste death, and the prophet Mohammed said in his words that "any body that is dead his end has come”, the next thing is to make provision for it’s funeral service, the apostle of God said that one of the five things that a Muslim must be in hurry to do is to bury a Muslim body immediately after his or her death.

They should be washed by one of their family members in which a female would be washed by a female and vice versa as applicable to the male, the water to be used must be warmed water and they will apply camphor with it. During this process they will clear the pubic and the armpit air, because they are an impurity before almighty Allah.

Furthermore, after they might have washed them, the next thing is to shroud them. There was a hadith of the holy prophet, peace be upon him, when Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was ill he asked A'isha, "How many shrouds did the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, have?" and she replied, "Three pure white cotton garments." Abu Bakr said, "Take this garment (a garment he was wearing on which red clay or saffron had fallen) and wash it. Then shroud me in it with two other garments." A'isha said, "Why's that?", and Abu Bakr replied, "The living have greater need of the new than the dead. This is only for the body fluids that come out as the body decays."

For those who went to hajj, they use there haram to wrap there body and for those who did not go to hajj the will use a towel to wrap there body. And they will use a good perfume on there body. If it is a man they would turban for them before wrapping them, and if it is women they would use hijaab before wrapping them.

However, the next thing is to pray on the body in the mosque, in the muwatta hadith Yahya reported that” A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered that the body of Sad ibn Abi Waqqas be brought past her in the mosque so that she could make dua for him. Some people disapproved of her doing that, and she said, "How hasty people are! The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, only prayed over Suhayl ibn Bayda in the mosque”. In the prayer service women are not usually allowed to attend because of there flexible mind. The Imam that will pray on the corpse will stand at the middle for male, for the females the Imam will stand at shoulder side.

Furthermore, they will take the corpse to the grave yard to bury it. From the word of the apostle of God, he said when digging the grave it will be 6ft long even for the short people it will be the same size. Also it would be about three fit downward, After the is interred to the grave people there is also another prayer to be showered on the corpse for further forgiveness, after these they will cover it with wood before the of sound.
 

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