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Aug 28, 2005 17:56

My grandma had her funeral Friday ( Read more... )

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bananasofdeath August 29 2005, 01:17:16 UTC
In Islam, funerals are supposed to take place as quickly as possible (same day if it's possible). We also don't have any of that preservation nonsense, or even coffins. The body is washed and wrapped in plain cloth and thus interred.

You've still never seen a corpse. You suppose it's rather a good thing.

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jadesolitude August 29 2005, 06:42:36 UTC
Is that in the Qur'an?

And yeah, that's about how I'd like to go.

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bananasofdeath August 30 2005, 06:42:17 UTC
You think it's sunna, examples of what the Prophet did. Most specifics like that aren't in the Qur'an.

Everyone should be buried the Islamic way... at least everyone should stick to those basic things, keeping the body covered, having a very simple burial. Though if they want to read Qur'an and that, it's cool too...

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jadesolitude September 3 2005, 07:00:35 UTC
Who wrote Sunna, again?

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bananasofdeath September 4 2005, 03:04:39 UTC
Various people... you don't remember their names off the top of your head, but you'd recognize them.

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