Muslim beliefs about death

Women do not always attend Muslim funerals
This is a very old rule that dates back centuries. Some Muslim families will follow it and some will not. If you’re a woman whose partner is attending a Muslim funeral, it’s not https://alkhidmat.no/ unusal for them to go alone. It just means the family is following tradition.

Whether women attend Muslim funerals will depend on how religious the family is, and the rules their mosque follows. If women do attend the funeral, they’ll usually sit separately from the men.

Muslims do not believe in cremation
Cremation involves burning a person’s body in a cremation chamber rather than burying it in the ground. It’s now the number one funeral choice in the UK-but in Islam it is traditionally not acceptable.

Muslims believe in treating the body of a person who’s died with care and respect. They feel that cremation ‘destroys’ the body. As such, cremation is ‘haram’ or forbidden by the Muslim faith.

At a Muslim funeral, you can almost always expect a burial to follow the service.

Muslim funerals happen very quickly after the person has died
Muslims often bury people the day after they’ve died. At the very latest, a Muslim funeral will happen within 3 days after death.

This is because Muslims do not believe in embalming (using chemicals to preserve the body). Islam says that the body should decompose naturally in the ground.