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Usually it begins with the cleaning of the body by loved ones which is simply a bathing of the body. There are many prayers said during this ritual, and even designated mourners who cry during the bathing of the body. There are many rules, such as once you have bathed the body, you are not allowed to touch it again with your "unclean" hands. However, in the U.S. many times the bathers wear gloves through part of the cleaning, and remove for last part so as not to "touch with unclean hands". The body is wrapped in several layers of white clothing/wraps, etc. They pray over the body while in state ( in U.S. at the funeral home) and stay all night. The body is buried next day in dirt, not a casket. In the U.S. most cemetery owners require an outer burial container (usually for Muslims a two-piece concrete type "coffin.it is much like a wooden box, with lid and all.Then they bury them at a grave normally they bury them in the country that they were born in; although because burial needs to be within 24 hours of death mostly Muslims are buried in the country where they died. They should be buried on their side facing Mecca.

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