Burial and Funeral Regulations in Islam

"Every human being is bound to taste death; but only on the Day of Resurrection will you be requited in full (for whatever you have done)- whereupon he that shall be drawn away from Fire and brought into the Paradise will indeed have gained a triumph ; for the life of the world is nothing but an enjoyment of self delusion."
Qur'an 3:185

The aim of this site is not exactly the explanation of all the funeral rules, which are mostly known by all Muslims but to facilitate and clear up easy rules to Muslim Communities who are living in North America, where natives or emigrants from the Muslim countries have settled and are obliged by occidental norms to follow some ways quite different to Islamic ones.