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  2. Funeral prayer (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    Ṣalāt al-Janāzah (Arabic: صلاة الجنازة) is the name of the special prayer that accompanies an Islamic funeral.It is performed in congregation to seek pardon for the deceased and all dead Muslims, [1] and is a collective obligation (farḍ al-kifāya) upon all able-bodied Muslims; if some Muslims take the responsibility of conducting the prayer, then the obligation is fulfilled ...

  3. Islamic funeral - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Islamic funerary found at the Domvs Romana in Rabat, Malta – c. 11th century. Funerals and funeral prayers in Islam (Arabic: جنازة, romanized: Janāzah) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation and variation in custom. In all cases, however, sharia (Islamic religious law) calls for burial ...

  4. Absentee funeral prayer (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    e. Absentee funeral prayer in Islam, known as Salat al-Gha'ib (Arabic: صلاة الغائب), is a kind of funeral prayer performed upon a dead Muslim if they die in a place where there are no Muslims to pray for the dead. By contrast, if someone dies and a funeral prayer is said on his or her behalf, no other prayer is necessary.

  5. Tashahhud - Wikipedia

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    Tashahhud. The Tashahhud (Arabic: تَشَهُّد, meaning "testimony [of faith]"), also known as at-Tahiyyat (Arabic: ٱلتَّحِيَّات), is the portion of the Muslim prayer where the person kneels or sits on the ground facing the qibla (direction of Mecca), glorifies God, and greets Muhammad and the "righteous servants of God ...

  6. Salah - Wikipedia

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    Islam. Salah (Arabic: ٱلصَّلَاةُ, romanized: aṣ-Ṣalāh) is the principal form of worship in Islam. Facing Mecca, it consists of units called rak'ah (specific set of movements), during which the Quran is recited, and prayers from the Sunnah are typically said. The number of rak'ah varies from prayer to prayer.

  7. Prayer for the dead - Wikipedia

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    In Islam, Muslims of their community gather to their collective prayers for the forgiveness of the dead, a prayer is recited and this prayer is known as the Salat al-Janazah (Janazah prayer). Like Eid prayer, the Janazah prayer incorporates an additional (four) Takbirs, the Arabic name for the phrase Allahu Akbar, but there is no Ruku' (bowing ...

  8. Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Basit finished learning the Quran at age of 10 and then requested his grandfather and father to continue his education with the Qira’at (recitations). They both agreed and sent him to the city of Tanta (Lower Egypt) to study the Quranic recitations (‘ulum al-Quran wa al-Qira’at) under the tutelage of Sheikh Muhammad Salim, a well known teacher of recitaion of that time.

  9. Death and state funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini - Wikipedia

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    8 due to a stampede. On 3 June 1989, at 22:20 IRST, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution and the first Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, died in Jamaran, Greater Tehran aged 89 after spending eleven days at a private hospital, near his residency, after suffering five heart attacks in ten ...