Muhammad Ali to be mourned with traditional Muslim prayer service

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Muslims have travelled from all over the world to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a Kentucky arena for a final tribute to Muhammad Ali&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A fellow Muslim with the same name as the boxing great travelled from Bangladesh&period; Mohammad Ali&comma; who arrived with no hotel reservation&comma; said he met the boxer in the early 1970s and they struck up a friendship based on their shared name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Champ visited his home in 1978 and always joked he was his twin brother&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He will join more than 14&comma;000 people who have tickets to the service on Thursday in Louisville&comma; which will be broadcast worldwide and streamed online on the boxer&&num;8217&semi;s website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Organisers say the service&comma; or Jenazah prayer&comma; is open to all&comma; but meant especially as a chance for Muslims to say goodbye to a man considered a hero of the faith&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>US Muslims hope the service for the Kentucky native will help underscore that Islam is fully part of American life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Muhammad planned all of this&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Imam Zaid Shakir&comma; a prominent US Muslim scholar who will lead Thursday&&num;8217&semi;s prayers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;And he planned for it to be a teaching moment&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ali&comma; who died on Friday at 74&comma; famously joined the Nation of Islam as a young athlete&comma; then embraced mainstream Islam years later&comma; becoming a global representative of the faith and an inspiration to other Muslims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;One reason Muhammad Ali touched so many hearts&comma; he was willing to sacrifice the fame&comma; the lights&comma; the money&comma; the glamour&comma; all of that&comma; for his beliefs and his principles&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Imam Shakir said&period; &&num;8220&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s moving and that touches people&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Timothy Gianotti&comma; an Islamic scholar at the University of Waterloo&comma; Canada&comma; who has worked for years with the Ali family to plan the remembrances&comma; said the service will consist of short&comma; standing prayers said over the body&comma; which in this case will be in a coffin facing Mecca&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Jenazah service lasts only a few minutes&comma; with people customarily standing in lines&comma; divided by gender&comma; as they recite the prayers&period; At Ali&&num;8217&semi;s service&comma; Muslims lining up to join the recitation will be separated by gender&comma; but the wider audience will not&comma; Mr Gianotti said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The faithful will stand shoulder-to-shoulder&comma; row after row&comma; Mr Gianotti said&period; They expect so many they will fill up the massive North Wing of the Kentucky Exposition Centre and spill over on to the main court of Freedom Hall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The service is comprised of four recitations of &&num;8220&semi;Allahu Akbar&&num;8221&semi; or &&num;8220&semi;God is Great&&num;8221&semi;&comma; with silent prayers in between of a reading from the first chapter of the Quran&comma; a blessing for Abraham&comma; a general prayer for the wellbeing and forgiveness of the deceased for the next life&comma; and a prayer for everyone at the funeral&comma; Mr Gianotti said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It will take about 15-20 minutes&comma; with additional remarks from prominent Muslims in attendance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to the traditional funeral prayers on Thursday&comma; an interfaith memorial service is planned for Friday&comma; which will include representatives of several religions&comma; including Jews and Christians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Muslim organisations are asking mosques around the country to participate by saying a special prayer for Ali this week&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Tickets are still available for the Thursday service at the Kentucky Exposition Centre&period; But all 15&comma;500 tickets for Friday&&num;8217&semi;s memorial at the KFC Yum&excl; Centre in downtown Louisville were claimed within an hour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Imam Abdullah El-Amin&comma; founder of the Muslim Centre in Detroit&comma; who will attend the prayer service&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;One of the most loved&comma; one of the most recognised persons in the world happens to be a Muslim &&num;8211&semi; everyone is coming from all over to celebrate this Muslim&&num;8217&semi;s death&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;91820" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-91820" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;image-76&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;image-76&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Muhammad Ali when he held the name &&num;039&semi;Cassius Clay&&num;039&semi;" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-91820" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-91820" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Muhammad Ali when he held the name &&num;8216&semi;Cassius Clay&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;They will see the true nature of the religion and the way that Muslims &&num;8211&semi; the majority of Muslims &&num;8211&semi; live&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Muslims typically bury their dead within 24 hours&comma; but the timeline is not a strict obligation&comma; and accommodations are often made&comma; either to follow local customs or&comma; in the case of a public figure like Ali&comma; provide time for dignitaries and others to travel to the service&period; The world-famous athlete died in Arizona&comma; and time was needed to transport his body to Louisville&comma; MrGianotti said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Gianotti said in a phone interview that he and three others &&num;8211&semi; two Phoenix-area Muslims and Imam Shakir &&num;8211&semi; washed&comma; anointed and wrapped Ali&&num;8217&semi;s body within a day of his death&period; The body is typically wrapped in three pieces of simple fabric&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The idea is to remind those who are still alive that when you came to life&comma; you were completely money-less and you will leave money-less&period; What matters is if you live a simple life or do good&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Imam Yahya Hendi&comma; the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University and a specialist in Islamic studies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ali&&num;8217&semi;s body will leave the funeral home on Thursday for the short drive to the Exposition Centre&comma; led only by a police escort&period; A miles-long processional is planned for Friday before the memorial&period; It will pass many points in the city where Ali left his imprint&comma; including a museum in his honour&comma; a boulevard named after him and his childhood home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e4e80a98">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; 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