As a Muslim, this is common—where the body has to be buried within 24-72 hours to perform Janazah (funeral) prayers at the mosque. This may come across as too soon for people unfamiliar with Islamic ...

Muslims perform the Eid al-Adha morning prayer around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca. [AFP] The Islamic faith has quite firm guidelines ...

Just days after a Muslim Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Deputy was gunned down in broad daylight in southwest Houston, many might be wondering why he is being laid to rest so suddenly. KPRC 2 ...

In Nigeria, whether Muslim women attend funerals or not largely depends on regional and cultural practices, more than religious rulings alone. The question of whether Muslim women can attend burials ...

Understanding Muslim Burial Traditions in Australia. Saying farewell to a loved one is one of life's hardest moments, and across Australia these goodbyes reflect ...

Imam Kifah Mustapha, director of The Prayer Center in Orland Park, Illinois, on Feb. 27, 2024. Mustafa Hussain for HuffPost ORLAND PARK, Ill. — Kifah Mustapha, the imam at Orland Park Prayer Center, ...

In 2008, five years before his death, former New York Mayor Ed Koch paid $20,000 (Sh2 million) to a cemetery to secure a place for his burial. Funerals, just like weddings, can be expensive as you ...

Council denies that it is not working hard to find more space for Muslim interments.

Plans to convert farmland into an 8,500-plot Muslim cemetery in Cambridgeshire have been withdrawn following criticism that ...