How to Wash & Shroud a Dead Body in Islam (Featuring Actors as Bodies)
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2023-04-11

Body wash volunteers demonstrate how to perform a Janaza, the Islamic ceremonial process of washing and shrouding a body before burial.

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This practical demonstration was shown during an end of life workshop about understanding death and grief in Islam. Watch that event at https://youtu.be/LiK23Ulhq4M

This demo was delivered by The Janazah Project via the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on August 21, 2021. 

This video was put together from the filmmakers of Two Gods, a PBS documentary about a Black American Muslim casket maker in Newark, NJ.  For more information, check out http://twogodsfilm.com

The clip is part of the Gems Series, which is a youth-initiated effort at the MCC aimed at providing viewers with bite-sized nuggets of wisdom and memorable anecdotes from the hundreds of hours of talks, sermons, panels, and lectures at the MCC to help you cultivate a more deeper love, understanding, and connection with your Creator and your faith. 

The talks span a range of topics from spiritual knowledge to current events from MCC's vast video library. If you enjoy this youth-run effort, please like and share and watch more at https://www.mcceastbay.org/gems

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