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 ...

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 ...

Majda Boteffah emigrated from Spain to the U.S. all alone. She met Miguel Barrera and they eventually married, three years ago. His large Bolivian family welcomed her as part of their family. She ...

Sydney Muslim leaders say they will refuse to perform Islamic funeral rites or receive the bodies of the Bondi terrorists as ...

Hundreds of people turned out to the afternoon funeral prayer service for slain Muslim teen Nabra Hassanen, who was brutally attacked and killed with a baseball bat early Sunday. Individuals and ...

Kamel Haddouche, manager of Al-Tawheed Islamic Center in Jersey City, shows the cloth, or shroud, that bodies are wrapped in for a Muslim funeral and burial. (Rev. Alexander M. Santora photo) Kamel ...

The bodies of those killed in the horrific Bronx fire were taken to an Islamic funeral home on Friday ahead of a mass funeral scheduled for this weekend. At least 14 of the 17 victims — many of whom ...

Mother earth can be described as man’s inseparable companion. She accompanies man day and night, in life and in death. She surpasses biological mothers in playing her role in the life of man. From a ...

A Thorold Muslim community says they're in a battle with city hall over a basic human right after being denied the right to bury a woman who died last week.

The Islamic faith has quite firm guidelines regarding funeral services and how long, after death, a Muslim is buried. Twaha Omar, the Imam at Masjid Ibrahim in Nakuru, says according to the Islamic ...