FUNERAL MOUNT OF OLIVES
East Jerusalem
Galery on request
The world is full of wonder.
I watch for a split of a second in silence and amazement to the running men and I am reminded that I have absolutely no time for it.
Obviously, the burial has to be viewed somehow in its entirety.
Cohesive, smoothly and as a whole rushed the men of the Mount of Olives the flying coffin with the body of the old lady to the sanctuary.
So anybody who’s ever looked at a Muslim burial has seen them as a touch antennae.
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Many people especially the non Muslims have a wrong notion about how they bury corpses in Islam. They believe Muslim hasten to bury their corpses in Islam without following due process as laid down by Allah, which is totally untrue.
Why Muslims hasten to bury the dead?
Every person has two special days, the day of good which signifies the day we were born and the day of evil which signifies the day we will die. Hence, no one can remove or add a second to the time he was born and the day he will die.
Burying a corpse almost immediately when he or she dies will not make the dead become a terror to his loved ones. It will make the dead rest peacefully.
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“O’ Allah, forgive her and elevate her rank among those who are guided. Send her along the path of those who came before and forgive us and her, O Lord of the worlds. Expand for her her grave and shed light upon her in it.”
These homogeneous men who carry the body to the cemetery they feel as the body of the lady flew herself to her last rest place and paradise.