How to Wash, Shroud and Bury a Deceased Muslim in the San Francisco Bay Area | Islamic Mortuary Talk

for coming. So inshallah today uh so before we start my name is Abdul Rahman and this is with me Hafis Tamin you know we both are from Fremont basically uh we are close to Lowi mosque where we um been doing for the deceased for many many years um ultimately the act of gul giving gul to the mayat is belongs to the family so it's the family's responsibility and obligation and it is their uh last opportunity to do kmat to their near and dear ones. So we always promote them but we are always there to assist and guide basically the gossul the gossul is washing and then we have the shrouding part where we do the kafan okay um we'll we'll go through this as an agenda inshallah we'll do the practical aspects then some California funeral process and then dos and don'ts and question answers we can stop for questions anytime okay so I'll give you an op opportunity to ask questions and then we can proceed inshallah. So this is the facility at Lowi mosque. So if you look at here we have a morg uh a cold storage to place the deceased as much as three three deceased can be housed in the masid. And then this is the room which has uh ventilation, drainage, uh faucet and uh you know water uh for showering. And then we have this table where we use for giving. And if you look at this you it has a groove where the water flows down. It's elevated on the head and the water drains into a hole into the sink. So basically that is the kind of the setup we have and it is in the back of the Lowi mosque. Okay. And then we also have this unit. You see this yellow thing. So if if a person is too big or too heavy, we can have three layers of support to lift and bring them down. So this is all basically what we have at the facility at Lowry Mosque. There's a new facility in Tracy as well. There's one in MCA and there are many around the Bay Area. Now I before starting the practical aspects I want to talk about the cost because cost is the biggest factor people fear you know. So basically the cost of the of the grave is $7,600 you know just the grave. It comes with this outliner concrete. They have to do a dig. It's a land cost. You have to dig. You have to put an concrete outliner and a slab on top and then closing cost. And then they have a marker for every deceased, you know. So, all that adds up to $7,600 just the grave. Um, the cost of uh paperwork, you know, the burial permit, that will add additional $2,000. So it is 9,600 and sometimes our mosque asks for a donation for cleaning the facility. We we spend around $200 to clean up after every gussle and we use a lot of clothes and kafan. We we are doing we do it free but sometimes if the person is capable of doing a donation that is used for anyone who don't have funds it goes towards them but um the so around $10,000 right we have to cough up around $10,000 but one beautiful organization is there for all of us which is called mfusa.org org. This is everyone has to go here, register and become a member. Okay, it's a one time. So, how what they do is they pay for the entire cost of $10,000. All we have to do is register with a one time $125. It's $125 one time and for every additional member it is $25. It's one time you pay okay to become a be a part of it. But with every death occurs there is a cost that we pay. So there are around 700 members in US. So the cost will come around to $13 or $14 for every deceased. So the 700 people right they put maybe $13 or $15 and it'll come to maximum of $10,000. So, so you pay one time but with every member passing away you are coughing up which is $15 which is meager and it is you know um it's it's like how much we spend for a coffee if everyone pays $2 $15 the whole cost of the $10,000 grave comes to you know so it's like a cousin um um it's a you know um jar yeah so it Saddakara right you just give $25 you can donate to mazjid you can donate to someone's cause and it covers $10,000 anywhere in US so if it is in Texas for example or somewhere right if it is only $6,000 then the 700 people divide by 6,000 will come to around $8 or something so the maximum it can go is $10,000 so really it is a good I'm a member he's a member as well and these are supported by all the ama in the Bay Area And uh it is not tied to any organization. It is it it has those funds that $125 you give it's just a backup fund but upfront cost is coming from all the members. the more the members the cost will drop down and in uh Canada it is almost free because there are,500 members and they really don't I mean it might be few dollars and it's taken care of you know so especially here in Bay Area where it is almost $10,000 being part of this especially if you have a s elderly person who is sick just go and sign up I have also signed up for some folks who passed away in two months 3 months I tell them they they sign up and they're uh thing is taken care by all the members. You know, it's like a crowdfunding. Everyone puts $15 max. It cannot exceed $25 per any member, but it comes to I I see it all the time. Sometimes uh $12, $15 and so so this is a very important thing that I wanted to share. It's a community program run by MFSUSA. Excellent program. You know, everyone should sign up. Uh it's for a good cause. So basically this is it um you know the cost and sometimes some non-Islamic would want a wooden casket like in u heward and other places. So you will have to spend another $500 to get a a wooden casket. So some most of the times um so once a person passes away uh you know you call any one of us from the website or through MCC uh immediately uh 10 minutes your paper is uh you have to fill up some form which is basically where you are and all the details social security and all those things you're going to be charged $2,000 to begin with but you know they may they won't take it right away but then within 2 hours someone will be sent either to a hospital or a coroners If it was an accident or home and they pick the deceased basically you're giving rights to the person the funeral home to pick up the deceased and come and place in the in the mosque. So the paperwork has started while they have brought the deceased into the masjid and they they placed it in the cold storage. It's a you know it's like a refrigeration and they are they come in body bags you know if it is coming from hospital it'll be plastic bags um so with lots of uh hospital gowns sometimes pipes and stuff like that or it could come from coroners as well it could be autopsy autopsy and the masjid works with two funeral homes okay so we recommend the two funeral homes and so you can work with uh those two funeral homes they will bring bring it here. One is Khan funeral home and one is uh uh what is Alura? Yeah, there's another one which is in uh near in Santa Clara um there also. So we use both of them though they're licensed funeral directors and they have a hearse and then a person to go to the home and bring them back. So any other questions before we can jump into? So I think we should start with the practical. So I have a manquin here. So basically um so I just made up a a manquin here to help us. So basically the deceased are in the morg, right? And they're all body covered. So the few instructions we start with basically is all the family members who come in have to have voodoo. They have to be in a state of voodoo. And um the couple of things we we before even starting with the washing couple of things what we tell them is basically no recitation of Quran in a place where we give uh washing and gul to the disease. So no Quran recitation in that area while doing washing and shrouding. Secondly the the the satar satur is the area between for men it is between the navl and below the knee. That area will be covered all the time from start till end. Whatever we do we do under the covers. So so satar is covered. So we tell give them instructions never to gaze into the areas like private areas. to stay make have our gaze away from uh you know away from the you know the private areas. Thirdly um whatever imperfections or shortcomings we see of the disease right maybe wounds blood or anything or any kind of a thing which may be little gory like if it is an autopsy if it is from the coroners it's it has to be probably they will cut open and so it'll come like that. So anything that you see right you are not supposed to share with your spouse or anyone uh parents nothing. So the hadith says that if you do that that keep it to yourselves till you die and not share those any good things can be shared. If you don't then 40 ma it is said in the hadith 40 major sins are forgiven. So that's a kind of a reward for people who participate in gusul get for doing gusul to the deceased. 40 major sins are forgiven as but you have to make sure that any kind of a this one we don't share anything like how we don't share anything bad about someone you know to others Allah says protect yourself Allah protects us like that we while doing we do so that said and then we make the nia intention of givingul to the mayat for the sake of Allah to prep help prepare for the final journey so those are some basic instructions but even before that what we say is to give voodoo to give voodoo to the to us or the deceased, right? We have to make sure our ista is you know all the dirt areas are cleaned up, right? So basically we do esta we clean up nostrils and face so that we can give mudu and then body bath like gusul. So it is very similar to the jumagusul we do is wash up our private areas so we can give buddhoo and then body bath right and then left. So these are the basic things uh you know so with that said right uh so what we do is this is how we start we place the deceased from that morg onto the table you know like this and um we cover the satar you see we have this satured there are two cloths one vertical and one horizontal so it is doubled up so it doesn't reveal any uh anything so we generally do like this we start with this and undo the all the clothing, all the you know uh the the body bags, everything that is there, we remove it. How we remove it? Basically, we unzip it and take his head up basically turn him uh remove all the covers, pass it under him, turn the other way, take it out, roll it and throw it away. So everything, every piece of cloth, clothing, everything is removed. But the satar is always covered. You know, modesty is number one. So it can never you can't do. So we have this always with this under the covers. We take everything out. There may be also pipes that are running into the nose. So we recommend you know you tell the doctors ahead of time you know to take all those things. So it's easy. We are not medical uh for you know uh so we don't know much about what's going on on the patient. But we recommend people to when they are in hospital to make sure take the help of nurse to take all those pipes out, scissors out, any surgicals, instruments out because it gets harder on the table to undo all those things. So, so basically we undo everything and then before even starting even before starting we run water from the basically in this area all the shoulders just wet him up just wet him up to get to get before getting started inshallah. So with that said the first thing what we do is we have few one brother holding the shoulder up one brother holding here and the head and we and the person the son or the father he is the main who the closest to the deceased he starts with pressing the abdomen three times. So the idea is any kind of impurities and any kind of you know all these things due to the pressure it comes out. So, so anything that comes out from the back and the front. So, the first thing like I said is to do is to wash the the private area all these areas. So, we have we have three opportunities to do that. One is in the top in the front and then we spread the legs. So we have access to the groin areas but we clear up everything and all we whenever we do with the private area we don't make sure we don't use our fingers you know like we use cloth cloth for any private area. So we have soap solutions we wrap around our fingers and we start cleaning up the thing and running lot of water. So we do as many as possible to make sure we feel good about it that he's clean and all the dirt has come out. We can see from the water that is coming down, right? We can see the color if there is still dirt is there or we can also see from the stains of this one. So we strain off those, throw it away, take another cloth. So we keep on doing this till he, you know, he's clean. So once the front is all done, we now go to the the back. So the back always right the rule is right side first, you know, all the you know sunnah. So what we do is we turn we extend the cloth to the other side and we turn him this way. The cloth is still covering the back. You see the sutur is still covered. And then one of us will just lift the leg up so there's clearance. And the with the cloth you go to the back side of the private area and clean up. You want to clean up thoroughly. Use as many as cloths as done. So he's thoroughly cleaned up. So and then once the bottom is done, we also do the lower back. You know, people are bedridden, bed sores, you know, you just make sure those are the hard areas, you know. So you want to make sure those are all clean. And then we on the third attempt now on the left side his left right. So now we turn again. You have this cloth like this. We hold it from the side like this. And one person here comes in and cleans up. Lot of water basically thoroughly cleaning up the front and back. So that basically completes the stinga. At this point we change the gloves of the individual who is so all this time we are wearing an apron we are wearing a mask we are wearing a cover uh gloves and then we change the gloves because it's the person who did the cleaning his hands are dirty now so and then he he changes his gloves and before giving voodoo right we also run cotton we take small cotton bundle a small portion of the cotton run through his nostrils. Just clean up any kind of a dirt from the nostrils here. And then we also just wipe the lips, corner of the eyes, ears. Basically making sure like sometimes patients coming from hospital have all this you know um uh things that you know they've been drugged or you know steroids and stuff like that. So there might be some stains all over. So we just clean it up. So with that we are now ready to give voodoo because we can't give voodoo because he's he's impure right so we just cleaned up. So now he's ready for giving voodoo. Voodoo is just the far of voodoo. So basically we even start with basically just the right palms even though it's not the fur part it's sunna but we start off with the right palm left palm the kilal of the fingers you know between the fingers. So we do the right side, left side and then basically the face all from earlo to earlo and from top to all the beard everything should be three times face is done and then the right arm all the way to the elbow three times always right first and then left three times and then masa of the head one time and then we go and we do the the kilal of the finger fingers from little finger to the big toe and from big toe to little finger. But we do one right first till the ankles and then the left till the ankles. So basically that completes wood. So almost two is done. So now is the washing. The gussul is just washing. Now we are going to give the whole body bath. Yeah. Any questions? Yeah. No. So we don't do anything like if if there are any rings you know anything that are easily coming out we try to remove if it is really hard then there's no way to pull it out cut it no cutting nails no cut some some families do ask us to do those you know trim the beard he should look better and all those things those are not recommended things and we don't do it any other things you Yeah. The >> Yeah. So what Tamim is saying half his Tamim is saying is that whatever we do about cutting a removing hump armpit hairs or any kind of a nail cutting or hair cutting should be done while while he's alive and as soon as he passes away we no one has owner ownership on of of the deceased and we generally don't recommend and we never do any cutting of things any kind of a jewelry things that can be removable like you know in hospitals they have all this you know all those name tags and you know those things we cut it off any kind of a thing that is removable that we can take it out but anything we don't do out of the way to do anything unusual so that's a good question any other question what happens if there are no relatives so we so for guul is given by the family what happens if there are no relatives to giveul so basically the key thing is we have a lot of volunteers the pious highest people are the most appreci I mean are the preferred first lot to you know uh request. So we have a lot of team members who are ready. So, so prior to the one day prior to the guul we generally tell the family members bring five members from your family you know because they have they are the closest especially if they have children son they need to do this this is their last obligation and opportunity they get to serve their dad or you know grandfather or so that is where we put lay importance if they say oh I have only one daughter I don't have son I don't have a which my husband husband and my son-in-law is not there. No people like that. We have volunteers and there are a lot of pious people who are willing to come and so we just use. So for men it is always men and for women it is always women >> the whole community. Yeah. So >> so Tamim is saying sorry we don't have another mic otherwise I could share this. So it's a fur kafaya it's a community's obligation to take care of the deceased if no one is there. So we have lots of folks who are ready to do it. Some are available some are not available. they'll come and take care of it in. So hadith may tell about women doing men all those things but when we have men it's always men giving men and women giving women uh women is that's happening right now there so it's a little different uh you know uh than how men is done uh but so with that said so we finished you have another >> yes Yeah, I mean so balik I mean one is if the kid is old enough to understand what's going on is preferred but there is no I mean I've seen some family have children who are way uh you know and they are able to handle and they are able to they are more ahead in their area years they are able to come and do it we don't restrict some some parents they know that their children it may be it may be hard for the children they can't handle it but I've seen also small children coming in and seeing their grandfather or so we have seen all kind of things but a balik is good to be there who can handle understand who knows what is going on is a good uh >> water >> uh reward. So what His Tamil is saying is basically children can also participate towards the end of the washing when we put the final water onto the onto the disease. We can bring him relatives any relatives outside can also come in pour water and get the reward of course. So that is um so we were where we were was vadu is done right now we have to give the body bath and we generally plug in the nostrils the ears just to make sure the water doesn't go into the body so we just plug in with cotton you know so now because we're going to pour more water so so washing is like always right first we start with the face so we have three four members right we we we start with the face, the right arm, underarm, armpit, everything on the right side. So three times you know one start with the head, chest and the satur open till here you know till the navl. So you all this you can do and then when the private part area comes then you use a towel and then you can use less soap or no soap it's your choice. Just clean up all the private area, the leg, everything. Three times on the right side. Then we turn him three times on the back. Run water every hair in the body. Everything should be wet. That's what gul washing is. So the right side is done three times on the top and the back and then we do the left side three times and then on the back three times. So that will complete the go washing you know. And um once that is done also at any point of time these two clothes get soiled because of uh too much of excursions or whatever it is we can change all the time. We bring in two new towels and then we throw this away and replace and u this must step we again press the abdomen once more. First time there was a we needed to be you know woo was required but now this is masnon just a a suna step. So we still do this pressing once more to press the thing. And then the last step is we add uh yeah we yeah because we pressed it we just run water but no vu is required mandated and the and after this the last step is we add some camphor uh powder into the water to take away bad order thing. So we just add kapor. Do you know what kapour is? Okay. So, you can just smell it little far away. These are very powerful. Uh you see uh napalene ball. Yeah. Basically, it's a napalene. So, it takes away it gives you good the strong odor and takes away any bad orders like napaline balls. It's a composition of campher you know it's flammable chemical. We just powder this, put it in the water and just run it on him three times up or you know in the back and this is the last thing we do. And after which we dry him up. So all we do is dry him up with a lot of towels. Replace this wet towels. Take another big towel, small towels. The table should be dry. He is dry. Everything back and front and that completes washing. I I think at this point any questions? So washing is done. Sure. Yeah. So sometimes there can be victims who are in a home who passed away. He's been living alone and passed away many days ago and it's bloated to them. So you you what did you do if someone decomposed too much? So I I have one he he has one experience. Yeah, depending on how bad it is. Sometimes >> we barely pour like uh if you pour water also if it is too much something happens then we don't even do that. We will do udu like barely touch with the wet towel as much as possible right uh it all depends on the situation. There is no one one solution for that problem. it all how bad the decomposition is according to >> but if it is like sometimes the body is not so decomposed but if you move it too much raster right and stuff then it's a problem then we just run water we don't do too much of uh putting soap I generally tell in general that use less as less soap as possible irrespective because especially in these covered areas it becomes difficult to get rid of the foam right so that's So that's one of the recommendation but it all on the go we have to decide some of the time. So sometimes you make a call with the ulami crump and say how bad it is and we take opinion basically the minimum even when covid struck. Our scholars have mentioned that make sure the water is run three times without having to take it out. But during COVID times even those body bags were double bagged and even the bags could have been um harming the person who is uh you know in touch. That's was the earlier stage of the covid where so they were buried even without water but the minimum thing for any uh is is running water three times but how we do it is hard but decomposition we I have seen once only long but it was not so bad we were able to just do the minimal things about running water three times and taking care of if we can do vadu we covered do vadu but those are very unusual but we see more of the um uh accident cases uh which comes from coroners. Basically the the only the issue there is the they they cut open the chest and the head they don't sue them back closely you know they sue it little opened up. So we don't uh use too much hot water because it can um get the blood come out. So we just lower down the temperature to cool almost cool and use that and we are still able to do it and the and the blood may be gushing out sometimes. So we just use towels and make sure we are able to do it. So we have not issues but that is the most of the cases but we have seen one or two where the parent lives alone and so in our dos and don'ts that's one thing I say that don't leave any elderly gentleman alone have someone always there if they have to take turns have someone else replace so you know so it doesn't so now we are going to come to shrouding part shrouding part yeah >> no No, not really. So, it's a must known step. That's that's one of the thing we ask our scholars. So, it's a it's a suna step of pressing pressing the stomach. But by the time of turning and all those things, many things have already cleared up you know and most of them are senior elderly gentleman's not so there's not much you know younger folks have some food and something but you know uh mudu is not required. So before going into this one, we use three tie ropes to tie the deceased. So we start off placing it on the bottom most. So it's arranged. Now I want to show Yeah, I want to show maybe come here in the front and show the Yeah, let us start with the churu. You have a ch. So we have three for men it is three piece of clothes sunnah for women it is five we'll not go there but three yeah that means so the biggest one is chad chad like a blanket you see how it is it is basically you know it's the largest piece of cloth and if you look at the corners they are unstitched they are just you go to any fabric store and you can have one for yourself you There are some measurements there, but basically it's the largest piece of thing that goes on the outermost. So this is laid first on top of the tie ropes. Okay. So let's do this one. So you have extra on the sides, in the front, in the back. So this is the largest piece of cloth. So if you see here it's called lefafa lefafa which is the bottommost you know and then comes the isar isar is like lungi you know like uh when you go to parra and all you have aam right the bottom part. So that is no not this one. So that is the second piece of cloth. So if you look at this one let us open it up. This is little smaller than the biggest uh piece of cloth. You see we have it like this. So assuming the head is going to be on that side we are going to place near his bottom the take more more more more. So this is on the bottom side the leg portion right. So that will go on top of this. Okay. And the third one is the kumse the shirt you know. So the kumse the kumis is a rectangle with the te cut you know we can show you. So what we have done here right? If you see here, actually it is not properly cut. It should be a it should be a straight cut and like a like a V. You see? So the one there's one that goes behind for the back side and one on the top, you know, in the front. Yeah. So we're going to place it on that side. How do I So if you see here, this is where the head comes in where? and we move the top part out so we can place him and the head goes in and then we can cover the the top part. So did his only hajj right and there were some people in in haram. So they were buried in two piece of cloth but the sunnah is three piece and then we have a tie rope which is a piece of a cloth that is uh that is just to tie. So at this point of time the deceased is completely dry. We still have two piece of cloths on top to cover the the satured up and that is the beauty of this. We have seen many Christians like a one Christian dad or a Christian mom and Christian dad in our case they come in we don't allow generally we don't recommend we don't allow non-Muslims to give but we do encourage them to come in watch the idea is those are the [clears throat] the times when the hearts are very soft and and when they see this act of so much of modesty and what we try to do they really appreciate those and can changed their life. So we encourage them to come and see u and so we have seen those those things also. So the so every still the modesty right this is covered and we place the head right and then we covered the the top part. Yes. So we we had this all done on a on a on a we have we have we generally do in our facility we we open this top box and lay it inside the box these things. So these things come out of the box. So the so it's all laid out in the box. So we we lift from the table. Sometimes we use two large towels like this. Pass it under him. just easier to lift. Or we have that special uh the belt to lift him up and then we bring the box under underneath. Or we just have five people, six people, one carry both sides of the thing under the you know we run one towel here and one towel here which is the heavy part is the shoulder and the midbone. So we have four folks lifting and one person on the head and one leg. We just lift him and place it in the box. So at this point right we have covered the thing. At this point of time we can remove the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So at this point we do a small uh um um what do you call a step where we you know when we do sujud prostration in front of Allah tala there are seven or eight areas of our body that touch the ground when we are you know and those are we you know it's our forehead the nostep both our palms are and then the knees and then the the fingers back right it's toes the toes the toe tips. So we take some either itar or the scam with a little solution. We tell the family members to anoint on those areas or the seven areas starting with the forehead and then we do the nose tip. Nose tip and then under the covers you do the right palm left palm under the covers. Satar still covered. Satar you go like this and do the knee part. right first then left and then for the toes we just go at the bottom and then so those are very sacred because all their life has they've done sujud to Allah we just at that point we just do the wrapping okay um so we we take at this point this turkey towels so now all you have is the coffin so you see what we do we start off with the left side his left you see his left his left goes and goes under under him here like a bed sheet tuck we do we just wrap it under you see how we wrapped it and then the right his right it goes on the top so that is just the step we follow is the right always goes on the top like aram and all same thing is the right The left goes first in and then the right goes on top. So we have two pieces done already and the last one is this one. Same thing. So generally you have excess of uh clo on the bottom. So we do the left again. We have this extra piece. We just hold it. We put tuck it under him. And then you have the right one. We leave the head the face for viewing. And you see just tie it and we do a we do like a tie uh we tie it like a shoelace just so that we are able to undo it in the grave. We just open the tie tie rope just we remove the that single shoelace just pull it out it's open. And this one eventually we will do the same thing and then we tie the tie rope on the top of the head you know like this but then we leave it here for viewing the family members until the janaza salah happens and then that is covered and so that's as simple as the shrouding is which what is kafam basically shrouding of the deceased for women it is five piece of cloth and their satur is much longer So and you know so a women can see the men's cus but the workshop we we we are not we are not allowed to see the women. So that's you know that's that's the beauty of mom mom raises her children and so so that's that's come to that comes to an end what time we have now we can go to the process 6:37 okay so that any questions that's all it is washing yeah so we have some folks cutting cut it cut it and kept it and donated it so we have bags of men and women kons in the masjid ready. So people go to this um you know San Jose flea market or anywhere where we can get fabrics of long clothes they sometimes buy in bulk cut it you know there are some standard size if it is 6t you have the char little more 7 foot than your lungi and it's just an unstitched piece of cloth with a good cotton so someone just makes them and donates to the must actually one of the sister does it she's been doing it so she's she gets some fabric from Joan fabric or somewhere you so we have a lot of those in the thing we have we throw away all the turkey towels because we don't have a way to recycle them it's unhygienic uh people coming from all kinds of places and you know so it's very difficult to manage it so we throw away all so we spend a lot on the turkey towels that goes away uh the you know the towels cuff and the biggest piece is cleaning up that room we have to make sure we have hire a person who just comes every after every wash cleans up the whole thing. $100, $200. So that's where the mazjid asks for donation. It'll go to mazjid. They they arranged the cleaning and some supplies and uh you know we get aprons um for the family members, blouses and mask. So we also have some rubber shoes and so we have lots of them stored in this kind of closets. Big big towels. Everything is in plastic bag so it's fresh open it up. So you have lots of these we store them and then someone comes up and cleans up this whole place. So that's where the donation request is. If they can't pay the it's it's we we don't enforce it. The mazjidi mazjid doesn't enforce it one and a half hours to two hours you know by the time people come in wear aprons we tell them and get the standard one and a half hours to 2 hours. So we start at 9:00 a.m. Oh. So any disease that comes we have to start at 9 maximum 10 but if someone passes away around 10 [cough] or 9 it's very difficult to make that day because after zohar is the janaza prayer and then five pillars is you know 3 p.m. 4 p.m. And then it gets dark during winters and they don't take after four five things. So they might they expect after zohor the they are running towards five pillars. So any of those things that missed the timeline it'll go to the following day. Weekends five pillars used to do weekends before now they don't do it. Uh as far as the paperwork for getting it. So every burial needs a burial permit from the county. So and and they will issue a burial permit only if a doctor signs up signs off the cause of death not just heart attack what was the precondition that resulted in a heart attack California law until a doctor certifies it you won't get a burial permit so if a patient doesn't go to a doctor for 3 4 years there are no doctors to sign up so you can't get a burial permit you will they will be sent to coroners because no one is taking uh respons I mean because the the family has not visited doctors doctor doesn't know the patient and doctor can't just come there and say after 4 years I'm seeing I I can't just sign up for something I'm not going to take the liability off so no doctors are going to come forward it'll go to coroners and and what they will do they will have to cut open to see did did he commit suicide drugs do buy anything and then there's a doctor there who is going to sign up and and only then you're going to get a burial permit. So those comes and the don'ts be dos and don'ts right we have to be careful that elderly people they visit the doctor often there's a record so even due to elderly age if say pass away you can tell the police call the police at home and tell them this is what has happened there's a history of thing I can reach out to a doctor don't let him go to corners so so those are going to help not go to corners so with that said uh the process Right. Uh let's go into basically like I said right the deceased can come from coroners you know or it can be a home because an elderly person or or from a hospital. So basically our lorry mosque works with the funeral home you know they send a hearse and and this funeral home they do the hearse the burial permit and everything. So that's where they charge $2,000 just to send a car to pick up from the from this place, bring it to the mosque and take it to the the cemetery. So those car hurse and the driver and then electronically they go into a system, send it to the get all the social security names, first names, last name, everything. The names have to match uh with the social security name. That's the most difficult part. And the doctor has to be uh accessible. If the doctor is not accessible, then you're not going to get burial permit. So, so yeah, I mean they have to so from morning 8 till 4 p.m. they can keep they keep fighting trying to reach the doctor. So we recommend the family members to tell the doctors ahead of time. You know we are Muslims. We going to get a call from funeral home. They would know. Most of the doctors know it. If it is a non-Muslim doctor and if they don't know unlike because most of the Christians they have a memorial service they have a funeral service they have a memorial service and it's a long you know might take a month 15 days so if you let the doctor I mean doctor knows they are ready to pick up the call and give you know cause of death so basically that is what the funeral home does is basically electronically files all the documents details so they can get a burial permit and with that burial permit you are now able to carry a deceased to any cemetery and show the burmill burial permit and bur the bodies of the mosque storage and they're fighting out with getting access and it might fall to the next day so we tell the family members so if it's going to delay it'll be in the mosque worst case it can be in the funeral home funeral home also has morgs or it'll stay in the hospital morg till the family tell send some funeral member to pick it up from the hospital. It'll be in the hospital morg staying there for a couple of days. Sooner is the better. That is the first place. Second place is our mosque and then it is still in the morg till we get a clearance. We know things are going forward then we know by 9:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. or 10 we know things are going shouldn't be a problem and they can correct it. So basically the accessing doctor and the name match with social security, right? They have to find the records. Um so so that's what happens. So the funeral cost is around $2,000. Just this this person the funeral home we have we work with two. We don't work with every funeral home. We they understand us. We understand this. It's a 60-mi distance where um and then the symmetry the cheapest is the five pillars which is 7,600 and mass donation we ask for any cleanup and so it's around so much if you if the symmetry is a different one like it can go up to $16,000 $20,000 so all the private ones have a Muslim area uh you know and they're going to charge $156,000 and you have to reach out to them to make sure that They keep the place dug open. So things like uh chapel of chimes in Hward if you have to go ahead of time and tell them that the person has passed away keep it ready. If there's a weekend they're not going to keep it ready. They're going to do it on Monday and they're going to delay it. So the private symmetries can make you delay the the genaza process and doctor's absence out of town surgery vacation are going to cause delay. So you work with the doctor, make sure they're available and you know so it has to be both family and uh so this is what the the basic things happen. So natural death is all you know natural death old age sick for a long time. So they've been sick for a long time they're in hospitals hospice care and you know so no much problem there. You would tell like oh he's in a ventilator few more days you work it out you know he's in hospital so eventually he passed away but you have to work with the amikram and understand that when a person is in in the stage of old age and dying things like in a clean place facing his face by kibla making him using pure white clothes and no pictures for angels to come in you know there are so many things that spiritually we have to make Sure we provide a way to ease a person's pass away you know so those are the things and you'll see the signs of someone's temple shrinking nose shrinking and um heavy breath you know things are coming close to reading surasi mul those are the good things around the thing are telling them not to worry we are there to take care you know all those things are helping the the deceased before someone passes away so natural death is basically a death certificate now there are deaths that happen during pregnancy also. So in California less than 20 weeks is a miscarriage and there is no fetal uh death certificate required for miscarriage less than 20 weeks or 20 weeks but you still have to get a letter from the from the doctor or hospital. So you can go to the cemetery and they can show that letter to just say it is some legal thing and not but California law doesn't mandate a a paperwork to be filed for thing but we still get a paperwork from the hospital kaser or any hospital just to get that this baby there was a miscarriage happened and you want to tell the the hospital to give that uh know the fetal the into a into a bag and keep it and not send it for incineration. or you know to burn it out. So the parents make sure you receive that deceased from the hospital and they will give it to a funeral uh director or a funeral home. So there's so and again California also this unique thing where sometimes miscarriage happens and it is still alive heartbeat and then it passes away. You still have to have a paperwork even under 20 weeks. They changed the law, but 20 weeks and above, still birth, early, late term, or all those things, you still have to go through. It's a $500. It's it's a little lesser less expense than an adult to get the paperwork for a still birth category. And then unnatural death. These are accident deaths. So most of them it is going to coron. So a couple of things to so if it is unnatural death at home IBP passed away at night on the bed first thing is call 911 call 911 tell what happened and if there are records of medical records of high uh you know blood pressure history of high blood pressure for many years have those paperworks ready to show the do uh to the police and tell them that she had a history or he had a history of thing and passed away and we have a doctor who can vouch you know and so the 911 will call the coroners or based on how based on the situation they will either call the coroners or not coron coroners if they call the coroners you can still call the coroner's office and tell them that we are Muslims we uh we don't take you know alcohol we don't you know so and he's elderly person please don't do autopsy they can oblige and not do autopsy. We have seen many cases of those. All we have to do is request and so so those are unnatural deaths you know and sometimes body parts will be missing and so we just live with what is there gunshot wounds there are a lot of Muslims you know police and all those common so to bury you need a burial permit and that's where you need a permit and the death threat comes two weeks after it'll be mailed to the mosque and we give it to the family members So those are the basic things. So these were the dos and don'ts, right? Updated medical records, make sure you have your medical records up to date. So any these kind of things, unnatural deaths, it'll help you. Leaving parent alone, not a good thing. Students and Uber drivers, you know, always carry uh some kind of a contact of other people so you know or let them know where you are, you know, those kind of things. So it's easier. Otherwise it can go to a different uh social service and different you know could be a church run picking up and uh doing it you know differently than Islamic one. So it's good for students and Uber drivers people are you know working at night times and chances is to carry something that identifies them as Muslim. there's another contact number they can reach and so so those are good things and then transporting many people ask to transport the disease to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh you know so we don't recommend generally because to ship them they do something called embombing embombing is a process of taking away all the fluid from the body and replacing with formalihide and florine and chlorine into the body so it can slow down the decaying of the deceased and so you have to do embombing and you have to place them in an airtight container and then ship them in the plane so that it doesn't decay but these formaldihides are cancerous and you know it's not good for many reasons and the Islamic and says the best thing to to bury is the local place where he is to bury so we don't recommend ram bombing there people have done embombing like one of the you know many parents who children come from masters and the things they don't want here they and then there are organizations like andas and batas and other groups they are willing to spend money and ship them to their parents in India Pakistan so that that can still happen but it'll go through inbombing so those are the basic things um What else can you think of any questions? Think no. So the first thing they do is they they send it you can use the mic too. They can use it they send it to they call 911. So basically 911 or they send it to hospital you know they call they try to revive him right. So they end up in the hospital. So hospital has social services department. So if there are like San Francisco they know if it's a Muslim name whom to reach. There are some contacts like MCC or even Lowry or someone have some contacts to some hospitals and they know they'll try to reach reach us out. You want to use microphone cops or anybody if accident happens first thing they will check is the person's belongings right so who to contact they have no idea the faster they could reach out to somebody we have to make it easy for them so everybody carries some kind of emergency whether on the phone or uh uh in the wallet something that makes it clear that emergency contact then cops can reach out to them. So actually we have seen calls from USSF coming to mosques um through MCC the social service generally they are good there are deems who try to help they have links with the churches mosques local areas so somehow they will jump onto and come to us or go to Oakland San Francisco Oakland has brother Hatam runs a place there in Oakland Mazjid so he has a lot of contacts San Francisco hospitals they generally reach out to him. Um sometimes it hops through MCC or somewhere it comes to down to us. I mean it's good social service team there are teams who care take care of these in the hospitals but sometimes sometimes somehow we come to know that there's Muslim then we do so sometimes you might miss you know it's written down like how we have during this covid we had all our uh you know wills or whatever the did we did our you know trust we created the trust with all these things people when they go for hajj and umrah they do also those to take care of those so so those things could happen which is not uh good so and there's no way to we could reach out to these hospitals sometimes they take it and they point us to the social service they have some contacts so many there are I mean those departments are familiar with all kind of uh customs when they yeah they will they will come to the home or they will have some cop come to the home knock the door so till that time it'll be in a hospital morg because so they won't release from hospital until a a funeral home is involved only you can release I can't release my dear ones from the hospital without the help of a funeral home because I don't know how to handle a deceased, right? I can't put it in my car and just bring him home and do my way. So, I have to work with the funeral home and the funeral home as a funeral director. But basically, they have the process and you tell them what they do is we give them authority to release on our behalf to him. So, he goes and gets released but then he places in the morg. So either it'll be in the morg somewhere. >> Recently you guys know probably in Fremont there is a major accident one of the brother he lost his wife and two kids in right. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So in that case what happened was uh they saw cops saw his uh what is it called employer ID thingy and they contacted that company and the company all of us generally keep emergency contact right. So that company guys gave the emergency contact to the cops. Then the cops called Arshad by the the one whose name was put as the emergency contact and that's how this this whole thing had to happen maybe in hour or something I don't know but if we have something clearly in the wallet or something they did not need to do all this they can directly contact the person who we wanted to. So it makes it easy for whoever is going to help in that kind of scenario. Allah save us. But >> so those um the the two children and the and the mom they we we were transported back to Fremont because the family wanted it close to Five Pillars and the community. So So the hearse someone drove the Hurst a funeral home there works with the funeral home here. They bring bring it 2 hours drive and they brought us and we did at Lowry Mosque. The brother is still doing well and the daughter is still doing well recovering. Any other questions? Yes. >> Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Good point. Right. Right. Hello. So the who do we contact here when you know >> so MCC has you know brother Munir Moner has and the website has all the contacts and they have contacts to our names as well. So either Munir knows um contacts us or Moner or through other organization like Oakland or and then we get a call and we are on the call all the time right anytime anytime we get a call we respond most of the times either the imam or me and also there's a sister who is in charge so we have a sister's team of six eight people and then we have uh the men's team like eight six eight people and then we take turns sometimes There are three then I do one he does one or we have too many then we just uh share and you know because we all work as well >> and so then you coordinate contacts with the funeral home and transportation services and all that. >> Yes. So all we do is give them a link to the funeral homes and the link as soon as you talk to them and make sure so first of all we need to find if they are Sunni or Shia. If it is Shia we recommend Sabah. There is another Shia organization. So we tell them to contact them. If they are Sunni then we just find out which is your closest mosque. You know we need to identify we can't just take u you know we need to ask questions. So those kind of questions hap happen who is this person where and we know which masjid and if it is somewhere in Oakdale or Stockton then we give the contact of the Stockton mosque which is closer to them to handle it. If it is San Francisco we give them most of the South Bay Santa Clara some people know that they want to come to they want to go to five pillars and they want to come to Lowi and they say we want only this. So they have preferences. If they are far away, we recommend the nearest ones. So we don't really benefit. There is nothing like a number of thing. It's just what we want to make it easy for the family to handle the person. So we ask those questions and we tell them about the cost as well. So because someone has to pick the cost nothing here nothing is we don't have this fixed. So if if you know ahead of time we tell that mfsusa.org is the best thing. I have had family me family friends former friends who have sick parents. I tell them ahead of time to sign it up and it's very easy the process. So those kind of things happen and once the the contact is established we don't work with them now they have to work with the funeral home because they're going to ask all the questions about social security name. So it's onetoone. So we just give them the link. So you they will click on the link on the phone and they just have a bunch of questions. They fill up all the names and social security. They have all the information and and the funeral homes the funeral home works with them asking questions where what is this SSN? You didn't fill this fill that but they make sure there's an authorization form which you just say I sign for the release. So if if you get that done right which is 5 minutes within 2 hours the transport is sent wherever to bring it up the rest can take 1 hour to fill it up and then >> so the funeral home will work on the burial permit with the family. >> Yes. Yes. Because all the questions family questions and also privacy. Now it is a privacy of the of the family of the deceased and the funeral home. They they won't share. They wouldn't share because we are no one. >> And so >> and then we tell them make sure you are on top of the funeral homes. Things are going on because they can they might be sitting idle or the name didn't match. They need to make sure and then you as a family member need make sure that your doctors are responding just to be proactive. You know, you don't want to delay because in Islam, we want the thing to happen quick. >> And so, does this process change at all if you're a member of that organization? >> No, the process doesn't change. All it does is you still go through the same process except that the funding you just have they have a form on the page. Just fill it up. >> They will disperse the funds directly. [snorts] And does that cover every um uh funding item like the donation to the masjid as well? >> Um no, they do it to the maximum of $10,000. So when someone needs funding, right? Uh like expecting fundings from these kind of organization, masjid will not really ask for it. So the 10 and they would give only $10,000. If it is LA, LA may be $13,000. So they will give $10,000. $3,000 you do a crowdfunding or get it from the mosque. MCC does lot of fundings as well. You know there many people and MCC is very good at this. But we have to be careful not to use zakat funds. Zakat funds can be given given only to a living person you know it can't be used on a dead person. So you need to work out with your scholars to make sure where the funds are coming in. But there are different uh scholars giving different opinions. So it could still vary. But you want to be careful about how you uh think about zakat and where the funds come. So the fundings come from even lower mosque sometimes $1,000 $2,000 but mosque cannot give really $10,000. We do have some people folks who are saying I'm ready tell me whenever there is a death I'm ready to give funds to. So there those kind of things happen but this is best MFS USA it doesn't matter they don't work with any funeral homes there's no specific funeral homes you do it wherever you want your choice but we will give you maximum of 10,000 if it is 6,000 it'll be 6,000 and those funds are coming from the members of 700 people it is just uh you know it's very wonderful feeling that you are helping your community you know ease this burden of $10,000 See? >> No. So we will give the link. So regarding the link to the funeral home. Oh the MFS USA. >> Yeah. Like if I sign up then someone needs to know that I signed up. Otherwise how will they >> you >> they like kids someone needs to remember at that time. >> Yeah. But but the good thing is that's where we take this platform to announce this. I I start with that first because it's the most important thing. No one is benefiting from this you know the the best thing is we are benefiting by giving saddakara we are benefiting for our aka you know we are helping someone and we are giving a token amount of $15 and it can happen one or two twice a month but more members this is going to dwindle down you know and there are more members today it may be 750 also 750 members and it is not just Bay Area all over US and it's very successful model Imam Tahir on the website has a video about that. Our MUIs lots of scholars have approved and these are wonderful brothers uh you know doing a good service. >> Yeah please >> do you get overwhelmed there are so many deaths going on and how do you manage it? >> Yeah no I mean we have seen lots of deaths. Um we do get overwhelmed sometimes when there are two or three in a week. Two uh six of them in a week sometimes but then we kind of we have three members to lead the the gul. Um so we just split it across us me him and one more brother and any brothers are welcome. You know this facility we have you if you know there is a janaza happening at Lowi mosque tomorrow at Zohar expect at 9:00 a.m. You know the guul starts you can just come by if you have time and or let any one of us know come and join. You can also do for half an hour 10 15 minutes and leave you know take benefit. So we we have doors open for anyone to come in so long as they understand what to do and then and >> yeah also there's lots of like stressy has a new facility uh the I don't know the name of it it's yeah probably one of the big it's a new it's a new uh construction and it place is on the top floor, second floor, not the ground floor. I haven't visited but Vajut and there are few brothers who are in the board, they have they have established it on the second floor. Yeah. Yeah. And so and Oakland has one, MCA has one. So people like I said if call comes from far away, we just redirect them because we don't want to get burned and we all work as well. So um you know so we take time off from work and do it. So >> and one more question uh you said only $200 from masid for basic cost but whatever you explaining it looks like a very costly affair. >> No no we asked $1,000 >> for donation. >> Yes >> for the masjid. So mazjid spends like $200 for cleaning and the kafan some people donate them. So mazjid is also being um you know nice to families. If they don't want to give, we don't enforce it. Some some people we ask thousand, they give 1,200, you know. So it depends on. Yeah. Yeah. Any other questions? I think I mean it's easy if you see it's a you know beautiful thing if you see in Hindus and other religions they burn them and incinerate them. We do with so much of care and modesty. Alhamdulillah. Yeah, I mean this is just like how you do good deeds. This is one way for us to build our uh if Allah you know so it's open to anyone. So like I said anyone are ready to come if you know it's your family friends just come and janaza prayer you have a reward of one what is it called uh reward for attending a janaza one kirat one kirat is equal to mount ohud that's the kind of reward you get just attending the janaza prayer and then going to the kabasthan or the the is another kat of There's an hadith which says that's kind of reward you get and it's like a foraya. Yeah. So so long as we are and also right the thing we try to explain is three questions are asked in the grave very important and you know who is your lord? The two angels come and ask as soon as we leave 40 steps away from the grave. The two angels sits upright the deceased and ask this questions who is your lord we should be our mouth will not speak it's the conviction of our heart we have to say Allah is my r and the second question what's your religion Islam Islam is my religion and the third who is your prophet prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam as soon as you answer those three questions through the conviction of heart the it's a blissful journey to aka everyone wants desires this kind of a beautiful thing and for that answering those three questions is very important we have to prepare towards it through you know kidnaps and do you know salah and all the commands Allah makes it easy for us to answer those three questions if we don't there are consequences every night when we go to bed it's a temporary death. We go through a death, temporary death. And what is the dua we recite when we go to bed? Allah bismu. And when we get up at that time, the ru goes out of the body and it goes and then if Allah wishes, the r comes back and we are alive. And when we get up, what is the dua? We say alhamdulillah. you gave me life after. So, so we have to ponder about this and and so there is a consequence if you don't answer those three questions and so you know those punishment of grave and all those things we don't want to think about it so long as we do good deeds Allah even for a good small good deeds we do like we have heard so many hadith of someone giving water to the dog and you know any good deeds we do Allah makes it easy to answer those three questions but let us not be let us be conscious of our life there's a beautiful dua We recite in janaza. So it is forgive I mean you know give mak to the living the dead the people who are present the people who are not present people small elderly the men the women. Oh Allah forgive all of them. And then if you chose us to live in this world, live in the state of Islam. And if you take away from us from this world, let us die in the state of imam by sayingahill. That's what we all eager. And this dua is a beautiful dua we recite during janaza prayer. That you know and this is what we should always ask and eager. We we shouldn't take it for light these things. You know there's a purpose why we are sent here and the ultimate ultimate destination is Akira. You know that's why prophet wasallam asked us to visit the grave often to remind us to that this world is short and all the and and then as a son or a father visiting the grave the grave the suruk expects the family members to visit. So we recommend once a month visit the grave and that becomes a source of makira salvation for you know the son who visits the father's grave that becomes a source of salvation for the son you know and and he will be the best child written who visits so these are beautiful hadith mentioned about visiting grave and what we do and life sometimes our children we we they don't understand this so it's us to explain and all these things you know. So when children come right I give a special talk on this so they understand and the parents understand they go back and you know so I make sure I explain all this especially youngsters college I tell them I give them a whole basically we make it a habit to you know give this kind of a thing so they understand the seriousness of this it's not like oh so what uh you know what's a big deal you know that kind of mindset they have. We need to talk through this. So I we do all the time when we see young we take them aside and basically talk this temporary death and life and and the more we do more I don't want to I mean I put 18 plus maybe like I said we have seen youngsters too right this is one of the old slides so so any any Oh, they they promoted. >> No, no, you should bring it. Actually, I didn't know about that. See, women, daughters, everyone can come for the men's, you know, they should know, you know, as they grow, become a mom, they all are getting used to, you know, the male genders and stuff. So for men sisters this is the see we used to have even all the sisters used to be now we have these two events the more sisters are there but this is something they should all know yeah we'll tell so he makes sure he has once or two two times a year this event he has the same thing that they post so anyway so it's good you guys came you know and there online too some folks are there so it's a good anytime we we are there we are we come and for coming in yeah it's never easy you know this day and age [laughter] all right first of course is to gear up aprons gloves at the time of corona face masks face shields It's important to gear up before every washing and shrouding, no matter what the janaza is. Before doing the janaza, of course, you can have the kafin prepared. Three shrouds for the brother and five shrouds for the sisters. We always place a cover over the deceased before initiating theul, before removing the body bag, before removing the clothes. cover the a testing the water to making to make sure that the the water is of good temperature, not too hot and not too cold. Inshallah, the first step of doing theul is cleaning the privates front and back. And the way that we check to make sure that they're clean is the water that's coming off of the sponge and the water that's passing through the drain or passing to the drain is clear. After cleaning the front part of the private part, we're going to go to the back first by turning his feet over to the side that you want to turn him to. Turning his arm over, holding his waist and his shoulder blade and pulling him to you. the next step which is the wudoo the same wudoo that we would make for salah. So he would start by saying cleaning his right hand three times and then the left hand three times. The mouth you don't put water inside rather you just clean what's outside. The nose same thing you want to clean what's outside. After the face you're doing the right arm three times and the left arm three times. The same woo that we make for salah. Very next step after is woo. And we're going to transition from to the firstul the first washing which is just using water. And one simple way that we can wash a brother or sister without having to take too long is to turn the brother or sister to their left side exposing their right side and having the washer clean their entire face head and then cleaning the right side front and back [music] at the same time. And after the right side has been cleansed front and back, we're going to gently put the brother or sister down so that we can clean the left side. We're going to transition this second washing, this first washing of W of water to the second washing, which is with water and any type of detergent, soap. Now, we take this mixture and we do the same exact process of washing the head first, the entire head. And after the head is cleansed, we're going to turn him to expose his right side, cleaning his entire right part of the body, front and back, and then the entire left side. The lastul, the thirdul is with water and kafur. Kafur comes in different forms. We're actually using the liquid form, which is um a more potent form. About five, six drops is more than enough to mix with some water. And we also add some type of [music] good smelling body oil. Once that mixture is done, I'm going to do the same exact process, cleaning the head and exposing the right side to us so we can clean the entire right side, front and back. And then we're going to wash the left side, front and back. After the washings have been completed, we're going to pat dry the brother or sister and also wipe the table down, inshallah, preparing him for the next step, which is the shroud. The way that we do that is by turning him to his side, drying the entire table as best as you can, and then bringing the shroud, which is, as you can see here, half folded, half unfolded. And we're going to bring the folded side into his back as tight as you possibly can. Bringing it as close to the inside of his body as possible right there. Tucking it in. So when shrouding, the first step of shrouding, the first area of shrouding is the right side. Unlike what some people may think, it's not salah. You are not putting the right side over the left side like in prayer. This is clothing. And when it comes to clothing, the sunnah is to start with the right side. So, we're starting with the right side. And alhamdulillah, by Allah's permission, this is how you keep the a covered at all times. And if you pay attention to his arm, making sure that his arm is at his side and it's not, you know, uh behind him or twisted in any way. And this is a good time to pull out the bottle and uh start wiping it down. There are different ways and methods to perfume a shroud inshallah. This is the proper way to shroud which is to pull the shroud all the way up towards the ceiling and bringing it down nice and tight. So now alhamdulillah the brother or sister would be able to be placed in the way and in the space and in the area that you wanted them to. This is the third and final shroud. This is going right and then right over right here and then the left would come after that. It's also important to tuck under the feet like that. And when finishing off, you want to make sure that you're pulling towards the head and you're pulling towards the feet to make the caffin as tight and as neat as possible. Now, we're going to transition and transfer our deceased brothers and sisters from the wash table to the box. So, this would be the transition. We place him on a board. We bring his feet about halfway in. And then we just control his weight from the top. We control the weight from the top to make sure he doesn't slide down. And then we force him in all the way close to the edge of the box. Making sure that he's in, making sure that his head is cleared, he has space over his head. We turn him to one side and we remove the sliding board. Now the brother or sister is prepared to be viewed by their family or friends, whether it be at the funeral home and or ready to be taken to the masjid for janaza. It's extremely important that we remind ourselves of the great virtue and reward of washing and shrouding our deceased Muslim brothers and sisters. The prophet Muhammad sallallaihi wasallam said, "Whomsoever washes and shrouds his brother and conceals all that he sees," meaning he doesn't expose anything that he has saw in the washing, Allah in return will forgive them 40 times over. And whomsoever shrouds his deceased Muslim brother or sister, Allah subh will shroud them with garments from Jenna. May Allah subh grant us all that reward. Here we see the sisters mashallah taking care of the process of handling a washing and shrouding of a female. The washing and the washing process for females is the same for brothers. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same washing with water. It's the same washing with water and soap. It's the same washing with water and kafur. The only difference may be when it comes to the separation of the hair. They place it into three braids. Now the shroud is of five pieces versus the three pieces that we had for the brother which were equally cut pieces of shroud. The sisters have five pieces of shroud. Two long one skirt is one kamise shirt and one hijab. And they prepare it the same way as we prepared before halfway. So the sisters removing the deceased from the fridge and placing them onto the wash table and preparing them for theul. As you mentioned theul is the same but as you see the sisters has made they have made the cover much longer and larger to cover the sister more than the brothers would cover ourselves. rolling the body over and tucking the bag in the middle of the spine and then rolling up the rest of the body bag into a ball protecting from any leakage and putting it into the garbage. Once the washing has been done, as we mentioned, the same as the brothers as for the sisters, they're placing the sister on the shroud, making sure that everything is ready. Placing the hijab, placing the shirt over, placing the isot over, removing the bag, and the final two pieces of shroud. So, it's two shroud, one shirt, one lower garment, and the hijab. And they also are tying the ribbons to secure the keffin from becoming loose in transit, whether it be to the masid or to the cemetery. You are also permitted to perfume a sister shroud. May Allah subh accept the washings and the shroudings of all the brothers and sisters and allow us to perform this in the proper way according to the Quran. >> [music]