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Grave of a Muslim Muslim men finishing a grave after a burial Muslim cemetery, Kashgar. Following washing, shrouding and prayer, the body is then taken for burial (al-Dafin). Burial typically occurs as soon as possible, ideally within 24 hours of death, to honor the deceased and prevent undue delay. [16]
[8] [9] Death is also seen as the gateway to the beginning of the afterlife. In Islamic belief, death is predetermined by God, and the exact time of a person's death is known only to God. Death is accepted as wholly natural, and merely marks a transition between the material realm and the unseen world. [10]
According to Islamic prophetic tradition, Muhammad descended from Adnan. [7] Tradition records the genealogy from Adnan to Muhammad comprises 21 generations. The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad. [4]
Forty is a sacred number in Islam, [3] and commemorating the dead forty days after their death is a long-standing Islamic tradition, [22] [23] [3] dating back to the early Islamic period. [22] On the one hand, the fortieth (arba'in, chehellom) signifies the maturation of the soul of a deceased believer. [22]
Therefore, some Muslim traditions argue about possibilities to contact the dead by sleeping on graveyards. [6] Despite the non-existent or at max, the brief mentionings in the Quran, Islamic tradition discusses elaborately, almost in graphic detail, as to what exactly happens before, during and after death, based on certain hadithic narrations.
The history of Islam is believed by most historians [1] to have originated with Muhammad's mission in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, [2] [3] although Muslims regard this time as a return to the original faith passed down by the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the will of God.
Muslims believe that many prophets existed, including many not mentioned in the Quran. The Quran states: "And for every community there is a messenger." [1] [2] Belief in the Islamic prophets is one of the six articles of the Islamic faith. [3] Muslims believe that the first prophet was also the first human being Adam, created by God.
Islamic cultures or Muslim cultures refers to the historic cultural practices that developed among the various peoples living in the Muslim world.These practices, while not always religious in nature, are generally influenced by aspects of Islam, particularly due to the religion serving as an effective conduit for the inter-mingling of people from different ethnic/national backgrounds in a way ...