RELS 3333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Wayland The Smith, Purgatory, Jinn

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 3333
• Professor: Jacqueline Ho

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Rels 3333 lecture 13 notes death & islam (part 2) Islamic burial customs: quran, word of god, spoken by prophet muhammad, not chronological; organized by length, hadith collection, stories & sayings of prophet muhammad, sunnah examples set by prophet muhammad, companions. Rites co(cid:374)ducted at prophet muha(cid:373)(cid:373)ad"s fu(cid:374)eral: the sacrifice of 100 camels, distribution of his hair. If the ground is too hard for underground burial, rocks would be place onto of the deceased: body was covered with hair of women and children, hair represents fertility. Pre-islamic funerals: women wailed with grief, some tribes hired women to wail, spontaneous and not planned, sometimes it was planned, sometimes it was not, to show the prestige of the person, physical demonstrations, tearing hair out. Sample passages from quran: wailing almost defies god, a(cid:374) a(cid:272)t of (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374)t agai(cid:374)st god"s judg(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, shock of death is dealt with the virtue if patience s, exaggerated and excessive.