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Assalamu alaikum.

My brothers and sisters, when you pass away,

it is your right that your body is given respect by those who are left behind.

If you have children, your children, your spouse, your parents, your brothers and sisters,

those are the closest relatives to you.

It is your right that they respect you.

And part of this respect is that when they do what is known as the Russell and the Kefen,

you know, the washing of the body, and it's a simple bathing of the body,

they make sure that minimum number of people are watching this.

Nobody's allowed to just sit on the side and watch you being bathed.

When I have a bath in this world while I'm alive,

I wouldn't like the whole world to watch me bath.

And when I've passed away, what makes people think that it's now okay for everyone to stand around and watch what's going on?

That is disrespect. So from an Islamic perspective,

if you ever come across people bathing a deceased person,

and there are others who are just watching, you need to know something wrong is going on.

To offer the respect to this person, you minimize the numbers.

And who should be the ones who bathed me?

Those closest to me only, two, three or four, you don't really need more than that.

And the minute everyone is standing around, that is wrong.

Remember this. So they need to respect you when you pass away

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