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  2. Islamic funeral - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Islamic view of death - Wikipedia

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    [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]

  4. Punishment of the Grave - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Funeral prayer (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    Ṣalāt al-Janāzah (Arabic: صلاة الجنازة) is the name of the special prayer that accompanies an Islamic funeral.It is performed in congregation to seek pardon for the deceased and all dead Muslims, [1] and is a collective obligation (farḍ al-kifāya) upon all able-bodied Muslims; if some Muslims take the responsibility of conducting the prayer, then the obligation is fulfilled ...

  6. Afterlife - Wikipedia

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    The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in ... Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, ... Islamic scripture—the Quran and hadith ...

  7. Arba'in - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Absentee funeral prayer (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    Absentee funeral prayer in Islam, known as Salat al-Gha'ib (Arabic: صلاة الغائب), is a kind of funeral prayer performed upon a dead Muslim if they die in a place where there are no Muslims to pray for the dead. By contrast, if someone dies and a funeral prayer is said on his or her behalf, no other prayer is necessary. [1] [2]

  9. Barzakh - Wikipedia

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    Modern Muslim thinkers de-emphasize Barzakh, and focus instead on a person's individual life and the Day of Judgment. In this view, the state of Barzakh is simply looked past and skipped once a person dies. [23] Muslim scholars who do believe in Barzakh still have varying interpretations of this intermediate state based on different traditions.