HOW TO WASH THE DEAD IN ISLAM
In The Name of Allaah, The Most
Gracious, The Most Merciful.
It is pertinent to note that all types of Ghusl (be it
Nifaas, Janabat, Aedo etc) in Islam are performed same way, its just their NIYAT
thats different. However, in Ghusl l Janazat, we need SIDR LEAVE
to wash the body, if cant find the
leave or its water, then soap should be dropped in the water to dissolve and be
used.
Islam has great regard for individual's privacy, so much that even in death, human bodies are not encouraged to be exposed to the public without being properly wrapped, hence the dead body is not to be washed in open space, the body washing should be done in enclosed area, body to be covered at least from the navel down to the knee if it were to be male and covered from the chest down to the knee if it's female during the Ghusl Janazat.
It
is important we raise the corpses head up a bit and press their stomach gently
continuously to help push out the remnants of either urine or faeces (poop or
excreta) or both, after which we will clean (wash with water) both the private
parts.
We
would wash the body again, this second time with the Sidr leaf or
soap and water as we did the first time, then wash the corpse third time again
as we did the first and second times, but this time with dissolved CAMPHRA
in clean water.
Corpse washing is best done thrice, but if it were to be female and we feel the thrice washing isn't enough, we could wash the body five times, seven times etc, we must just ensure the number of washing stand at odd numbers (i.e, Thrice, five, seven times).
Allaah knows the best.
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