Understanding Islamic Funeral Rituals
Death may be a taboo topic for many but for the people at Pengurusan Jenazah Sinaran Baharu, death is a part of their profession as they facilitate Islamic funerals every day.
When Haji Roslan and Intan first provided the service in 1997, they never imagined that one day, they too would perform the Jenazah for their mother, even showering her body as part of the final rites. The siblings realised the importance of providing a dignified funeral, a final act of love.
????Pengurusan Jenazah Sinaran Baharu
537 Bedok North Street 3 #01-557
Singapore 460537
If you are interested in learning more about funeral rites and religious teachings, you may call 6871 8799 to enquire.
SUBSCRIBE TO US!
This video is part of our Neighbours series. We walk past them every day, not realising that even the most ordinary of people have extraordinary stories to tell. Hear them speak.
Find #OurGrandfatherStory everywhere!
Instagram:
Facebook:
Twitter:
Facebook Group:
Telegram:
TripAdvisor:
For media pitches, events and invites: press@ourgrandfatherstory.com
For business enquiries: limkopi@ourgrandfatherstory.com
The keepers of Choa Chu Kang cemetery
Mr Mamat Rasidi has been tending the graves at the Choa Chu Kang Muslim cemetery for 3 years. His livelihood could be affected by the exhumation of 80,500 graves starting next year.
Exhumation at Choa Chu Kang Cemetery
80,500 graves at Choa Chu Kang cemetery will be exhumed starting next year to make way for the expanded Tengah Air Base.
Digging Up The Dead - Burying Your Loved Ones Not Once, But Twice // Discovery on Viddsee
For the Vietnamese, modernization is not only affecting them in life but also in death. Traditionally, people are not just buried once but twice. By digging up the bones of the dead, the Vietnamese believe their loved ones will reach the next world. Three years after her father-in-law's first burial, Mrs Mai and her family carefully plan his re-burial ceremony in Hanoi's biggest cemetery: Van Dien. Millions of Vietnamese have been buried here over the past 50 years. It is an emotional time for Mrs Mai as she revisits the pain and loss of death. However, she is committed to fulfilling the deceased's wishes. Similarly, the men and women who dig the graves take their responsibility to the dead very seriously. But change is afoot as Van Dien Cemetery is set to be closed. Now, grave diggers such as Mr Luong must come to terms with their future as more and more break tradition and instead turn to cremation.
Join us as a Viddsee Patron to support more films like this. Find out how you can contribute here:
SUBSCRIBE to us here
Love the films on Viddsee and will like to contribute? Join our Viddsee Subbers community here:
Follow us on Instagram
Download the new Viddsee Android/ iPhone app to watch awesome short films offline #shortfilm
Muslim Cemetery (Singapore)
Music - Dark World by Kevin McLeod
I went out explore the cemeteries at Lim Chu Kang for the first time. This video is taken at the Muslim cemetery.
When I looked at Google Map to plan out my route, I noticed some kind of pattern in the Muslim area. There are parts were its like a city grid, a row of perfectly square city blocks, small road bordering each side. Then in the middle of each block, there are 2 narrow paths bisecting each other in the same tilted X orientation.
That square blocks I assume is part of the newer area. This video is taken in I believe is an older area where the blocks aren't square, yet inside the block, there is the same narrow paths perpendicular to each other. Yes, this video is along that narrow path.
I do not see this pattern in the other cemeteries. I can only assume its is somehow indicating the direction to Mecca? Feel free to comment below if you have the insight on this design.
Video taken by Garmin Virb X mounted on the Brompton's head tube that's why the low angle.
A Friend In Death: He Buries Singapore's Lonely Elderly Poor With No Family
Alone, poor and worried about what happens when they die. Some of Singapore’s elderly can’t afford and don’t have families to arrange funerals for them.
But 80-year-old Lim Hang Chung and his team from Cheng Hong Welfare Service Society make sure no one walks their last journey alone.
Starting at the hospital mortuary, Mr Lim is joined by other helping hands - including a funeral director who believes in giving back to those less fortunate, regardless of Buddhist, Catholic or Christian funeral.
Duties don't end with the scattering of ashes. Befriending the lonely elderly is where Mr Lim believes the real difference can be made. Sometimes he even reconciles once broken families back together again.
For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER!
Follow CNA INSIDER on:
Instagram:
Facebook:
Website:
A baby's final journey (Muslim undertaker Pt 1)
Some aborted foetuses are disposed of as medical waste. Some are given proper burials.RazorTV trailed an undertaker from a Muslim casket company, as he prepared an 8-month-old stillborn baby for its final journey.
A Jewish cemetery in George Town, Malaysia
The island of Penang, at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca, was once part of the British Straits Settlements (one of the other parts was Singapore, at the Strait's southern end.) Located on a busy trade route, the island acquired a very diverse population; today it is home to thriving ethnic Chinese, Indian, and Malay communities, and to a variety of different religions.
In times gone by there was also a significant Jewish community here, large enough by 1805 to warrant the establishment of a Jewish cemetery, located on what used to be called Jahudi (Jewish) Rd (now Jalan Zainal Abidin, shown in the opening scene of the video.) The oldest gravestone in the cemetery is dated 1835; the most recent (and quite possibly the last) burial here was in 2011.
After writing about this place on my blog in 2010, I was contacted by a former member of Penang's Jewish community asking for suggestions on how he might find out whether his sister is buried here. It occurred to me that others might have a similar interest in this place, and so on a later visit in March 2013 I photographed all the graves (photographs at picasaweb.google.com/donaldNR/ ,) and made this short video to given an idea of what the cemetery looks and sounds like. The cemetery is tended by a caretaker and his family, who also raise geese and turkeys on the property. The caretaker told me he has lived there since the Japanese times, (the early to mid1940s.) I have high resolution photographs of all of the graves, and I am happy to share them with anyone who is interested.
Day of mourning for victims of nightclub fire; funerals
(7 Dec 2009)
Perm - 7 December 2009
1. Line of dug graves
2. Close-up of coffin of 19-year-old Natalya Anikina
3. Wide of funeral ceremony
4. Mourners with flowers alongside coffin
5. Wide of funerals, open graves
6. Men lowering coffin into grave
7. Mourners throwing soil into grave
8. Wide of funeral
9. Zoom in on steam over line of open graves ahead of funerals
10. Wide of buses at site of Muslim funeral for 30 year-old Kalashnikova Liliya Kamilyevna
11. Men carrying body to grave
12. Close-up of covered body
13. Tilt-up from wreath to people mourning
14. Close-up of woman crying
15. Body being lowered into grave
16. People helping female mourner who fell unconscious during ceremony
17. Tilt-up from grave as coffin is covered in soil
18. Close-up of mourners holding flowers
19. Wide of funerals, buses in background
20. Muslim man praying
21. Close-up of headstone with name (Russian): Kalashnikova Liliya Kamilyevna
22. People praying around grave
23. Various of people putting flowers to grave
Moscow - December 7, 2009
24. High wide shot of the Kremlin
25. Various of Russian flag flying at half-mast
26. Wide city street
27. Russian and Moscow city flags with black ribbons of mourning
28. Man at newspaper stand
29. Pan of newspapers
30. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vox pop, Sergei Novikov, Moscow resident:
This is a tragedy for the entire country. More than a hundred young people died - they are part of our generation. We are all in mourning over the loss.
31. People on the street
32. Various of flag at half mast on the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament
STORYLINE
A day of mourning was declared in Russia on Monday as funerals began for the victims of a deadly nightclub fire in the industrial city of Perm that left at least 112 people dead.
In Perm lines of open graves lay ready for mourners to bury their dead.
Among the first to be buried was 19 year-old Natalya Anikina.
At another gravesite mourners bade farewell to 30 year-old Kalashnikova Liliya Kamilyevna.
In Moscow, flags were seen flying at half mast in memory of the dead.
About 130 people remained in hospital with injuries from the early Saturday blaze, which witnesses say was sparked by onstage fireworks that shot into the decorative twig ceiling of the Lame Horse club, and quickly set it alight.
Four people have been held pending an investigation into the country's worst blaze in decades.
The federal Investigative Committee said the suspects - the club's owner, the executive director, the artistic director and a businessman hired to install pyrotechnics on the night of the blaze - were ordered taken into custody on Sunday by Perm's Leninsky District Court.
The committee's Web site said they were suspected of negligence causing multiple deaths, and violating fire safety rules causing multiple deaths.
You can license this story through AP Archive:
Find out more about AP Archive:
Who resides in these mass graves? (Muslim undertaker Pt 2)
If you've been to the new blocks at Choa Chua Kang Muslim Cemetery, you would have seen some neat rows of concrete burial crypts. There are at least 8 residents in each crypt. Who are they?
Living As An Orthodox Jew In Singapore
Note: We replaced an earlier version of this video due to an error.
The first Jewish settlers came to Singapore over 200 years ago. Today, over 2,000 Jews call Singapore their home. How do they observe their Sabbath and where do they find kosher food?
For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER!
What happens when national duty conflicts with the religious customs of a Jew in Singapore? Do they rexperience anti-Semitism here?
Here’s how one orthodox Jewish family fit into Singapore society while keeping to their traditional customs.
Watch the full Singapore Mosaic episode here:
We look at four communities – the Arabs, Parsis, Jews and Armenians – who form a tiny but important part of Singapore’s vibrant cultural mosaic.
Also watch: 5 things to know about Singapore' Parsis
Follow CNA INSIDER on:
Instagram:
Facebook:
Website:
Kubor Kassim Malay Cemetery Ghost Hunt
Buy Noel's latest eBook at $9.99!
The GFS team investigates Kubur Kassim, an old Muslim cemetery along Siglap Road. This cemetery is widely known among the Malay community as the most haunted Muslim cemetery in Singapore. Testament to that fact, the team encounters a first ever entity attack in the history of the show. You don't want to miss this episode!
Watch all our episodes at GFS.sg!
Living with the dead in Indonesia - BBC News
Tradition and ritual - they form part of many important stages of our lives from birth until death, with ceremonies marking both the beginning and end of life. Death - in most cultures - is often seen as a physical end to our time in this world. But on one Indonesian region, that isn't the case. And the journey from death to burial can be a long one. Sahar Zand reports on the ancient death customs of the Torajan people. Her report contains graphic images which some viewers may find disturbing.
Please subscribe HERE
World In Pictures
Big Hitters
Just Good News
When funeral turns violent (Muslim undertaker Pt 3)
When there are two rightful claimants to the same body, the funeral can turn violent. Find out how the undertakers from Jasa Budi Muslim Casket deal with such challenges in their job.
Islamic burial rituals
People getting ready for a burial in common Islamic style, as per their traditional rituals.
Funerals in Islam (called Janazah in Arabic) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation and variation in custom. In all cases, however, sharia (Islamic religious law) calls for burial of the body, preceded by a simple ritual involving bathing and shrouding the body, followed by salat (prayer). Cremation of the body is forbidden.
Source :-Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
Muslim Cemetery Shooting
Zouheir Osman who is in charge of the Muslim Cemetery near Cochrane speaks to the media about the shooting that occured in the afternoon during a funeral service.
morning run at former bidadari muslim cemetery
08/02/16 morning run at old bidadari cemetery
Othman Wok, key member of the Old Guard, dies at age 92
Mr Othman Wok, 92, a key member of the Old Guard who helped the People's Action Party secure the Malay ground during the turbulent 1960s, has died on Monday (April 17).
A van from the Singapore Muslim casket is seen arriving at Mr Othman Wok's residence.
(Video: Toh Ee Ming/TODAY)
Islamic Cemetery Proposal Draws Opposition In Dudley
The Islamic Society of Greater Worcester is looking to develop a Muslim cemetery in Dudley and some neighbors are opposed to the proposal. WBZ-TV's Chantee Lans reports.
NADA: The Ghost Of Malay Pop | CNA Insider
Read the story:
Singaporean music duo NADA pays homage to the golden age of Malay pop music by creating electronic music based on old songs from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Producer
Mayo Martin
[mayomartin@mediacorp.com.sg]
Music courtesy of NADA (Boneka Patah Hati)
Live footage courtesy of NADA
Photos courtesy of throbbing pixels, Hyphen/Jensen Ching, and Singapore Tourism Board