What to do for the Dead

Table of Contents:

• • Dedication

• • Introduction

• • What to do for the Dead

• • Informing those concerned on the Occasion of Death

• • Wake — A Pagan Custom

• • Hastening the Burial

• • Sleeping while the Dead Body is in the House

• • Reading and Explanation of the Holy Quran

• • Drinking, Gambling, Coffee and Biscuits

• • Bathing the Dead

• • Shrouding the Dead

• • The Funeral Procession

• • The Funeral Service

• • The Funeral Prayer

• • Prayers of the Holy Prophet [Muhammad (pbuh)] at Funerals

• • The Burial

• • Weeping and Wailing

• • Extravagance and Un-Islamic Customs

• • Niyaz

• • Tazim