Michael Jackson's funeral was held Tuesday 7 june at Forest Lawn cemetery at 8am local time, two hours before the memorial service, acting mayor Jan Perry told the local NBC television affiliate on Monday.
According to multiple reports, the funeral was to be held in accordance with Muslim traditions, because Michael is believed to have converted to islam in 2008.
But the public Michael Jackson memorial service and tribute was Christian and not Muslim.
Michael Jackson’s parents are the ones who decided his Funeral Arrangements no matter what Michael jackson religion is.
In California, the right to control disposition of a person’s remains and make funeral arrangements is controlled by Health and Safety Code Section 7100. There is a pecking order of possible right holders who can control funeral arrangements.
Michael Jackson was laid to rest Friday 4 September 2009, 10 weeks after his death, at Forest Lawn cemetery in California.
About 200 family and friends attended service,whether the private burial service was held according to the Christian faith , to the Jehovah witnesses believes or to the Muslim faith is unknown.
Funerals in Islam follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to some interpretation and local variation in custom. In all cases, however, sharia (Islamic religious law) calls for burial of the corpse, preceded by a simple ritual involving bathing and shrouding the body, followed by salah (prayer).
Burial rituals should normally take place as soon as possible and include:
* Bathing the dead body.
* Enshrouding dead body in a cotton or linen cloth.
* Funeral prayer.
* Burial of the dead body in a grave.
* Positioning the deceased so that the head is faced towards Mecca.
About 1.6 million people applied for 8,750 registrants to win tickets for the service at the Staples Centre arena and a neighboring arena, where the event was shown on giant screens.
Police have prepared a large-scale operation for the service, warning fans not to show up at the downtown Staples Centre arena unless they were among the lucky few with tickets.
Fans from around the world came to Los Angeles when the service was announced and there have been fears of logistical chaos if hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets.
This Article was updated after the funeral and burial was held
