Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

are put in a fire in a shovel and fumigated.] It is better to fumigate
each piece of the shroud separately before putting them in the
coffin. Such fumigation is done also while the soul (of the dying
person) is going out and before the washing of the corpse is
started. It is not done while carrying the corpse or during the
interment.
A hadîth-i-sherîf written in Fatâwâ-i fiqhiyya states: “When
Adam ‘’alaihissalâm’ died, angels brought khanût (a mixture of
camphor, sandalwood, etc.) and shrouds from Paradise. They
washed him with water and cedar leaves. At the third (washing)
they added camphor. They wrapped him in three shrouds. They
performed the salât (of janâza) for him. They made a grave and
interred him. Then, turning to his children, they said: O sons of
Adam. Treat your dead like this.”
Shrouds must be washed and prepared beforehand even if they
are new. It is necessary to prepare the shrouds beforehand.
Khanût is sprinkled on all the three shrouds.
After the corpse is dried, the qamîs is taken out of the coffîn,
passed over the corpse’s head, and stretched down to the feet, one
half along the front and the other half along the back of the corpse.
Saying the Basmala, the corpse is made to lie on the izâr in the
coffin. First the left hand side and then the right side of the izâr are
laid over the corpse. The lifâfa is laid likewise on the corpse. That
is, its right side is put on its left side. As a matter of fact, a person
alive puts on his coat, shirt, etc. likewise.
When a woman’s qamîs is closed, her hair is parted in the
middle and both halves are passed over the sides and put on the
qamîs over the breast. The khimâr is put over her hair and then it
is covered with the izâr. The breast cloth is wrapped round the
corpse before or after the izâr. Then it is covered with the lifâfa.
The head and foot ends and the middle [around the belly] of the
lifâfa are tied with a piece of cloth. A big boy is shrouded like a
man, and a big girl is shrouded like a woman. A small boy is
shrouded in one item, and a small girl is shrouded in two items. A
child born dead or aborted or a human limb, [e.g. an arm], is not
shrouded; they are wrapped in some cloth and buried.
When an exhumed naked corpse is found, it is shrouded and
buried as prescribed by the sunna if it has not yet putrefied. If it
has putrefied it is only wrapped in some cloth and buried.
The amount of the shroud prescribed by the sunna is bought
with the dead person’s (left) property (or money). Setting apart
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