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CHAP. XV.] 317
CHAPTER XV.
DEATH, AND FUNERAL RITES.
When a learned or pious Muslim feels that he is
about to die, he sometimes performs the ordinary
ablution, as before prayer, that he may depart from
life in a state of bodily purity; and generally he repeats the profession of the faith, "There is no deity
but God: Mohammad is God's Apostle." It is
common, also, for a Muslim, on a military expedition,
or during a long journey, especially in the desert, to
carry his grave-linen with him. Not unfrequently
does it happen that a traveller, in such circumstances,
has even to make his own grave : completely overcome by fatigue or privation, or sinking under a
fatal disease, in the desert, when his companions, if
he have any, cannot wait for his recovery or death,
he performs the ablution (with water, if possible, or,
if not, with sand or dust, which is allowable in such
case), and then, having made a trench in the sand,
as his grave, lies down in it, wrapped in his grave-
clothes, and covers himself, with the exception of his
face, with the sand taken up in making the trench:
thus he waits for death to relieve him ; trusting to
the wind to complete his burial.
| Title | An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians - 2 |
| Creator | Lane, Edward William |
| Publisher | C. Knight and Co. |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Date | 1842 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000329 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CHAP. XV.] 317 CHAPTER XV. DEATH, AND FUNERAL RITES. When a learned or pious Muslim feels that he is about to die, he sometimes performs the ordinary ablution, as before prayer, that he may depart from life in a state of bodily purity; and generally he repeats the profession of the faith, "There is no deity but God: Mohammad is God's Apostle." It is common, also, for a Muslim, on a military expedition, or during a long journey, especially in the desert, to carry his grave-linen with him. Not unfrequently does it happen that a traveller, in such circumstances, has even to make his own grave : completely overcome by fatigue or privation, or sinking under a fatal disease, in the desert, when his companions, if he have any, cannot wait for his recovery or death, he performs the ablution (with water, if possible, or, if not, with sand or dust, which is allowable in such case), and then, having made a trench in the sand, as his grave, lies down in it, wrapped in his grave- clothes, and covers himself, with the exception of his face, with the sand taken up in making the trench: thus he waits for death to relieve him ; trusting to the wind to complete his burial. |
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