Procedure for Washing the dead body:

1.   Men should wash male bodies and women should wash female bodies.
   


2.   The washing is similar to ghusl (full shower) - the washer is merely providing the body with the final ghusl it cannot do for itself.
   


3.   The body should be placed on an elevated surface, such as a table or a board.
   


4.   It should be stripped of clothes with private parts covered.
   


5.   Only people whose presence is needed may stay in the room.
   


6.   A washer should state his or her intention to wash the body of a specific person.
   


7.   The washer begins by lightly pressing the stomach of the deceased to expel (if possible) any remnants from it, and then he or she washes the private parts of all impurities. The washer should use a wash cloth (he can wrap it around his hand) because touching the private parts of the dead is haraam (forbidden).
   


8.   Then, the body should be washed as in wudu (ablution).
   


9.   Then, beginning from the right side, the body should be washed with soap (optional) and water, three times.
   


10.   If the washer feels that three times is not enough, he can wash it five or seven times.
    


11.   Female washers can wash the body more than seven times, but it should always be in odd numbers (i.e. nine, eleven, etc.).
    


12.   After the body is washed, if it is female, the hair should be done in three braids and tucked behind the neck.
    


13.   After washing is complete, the body should be dried with clean cloth so the shroud does not get wet.
    


14.   Optionally, perfume may be applied, at least 3 times.
    


15.   Clipping the fingernails of the deceased, trimming his mustache or shaving the under-arm of the deceased is makruh (disliked) but permissible.
    


16.   Prior to shrouding, if any other impurity is noticed, the body can be washed again.
    


17.   After the last wash, apply some camphor to the body, if available.
    


18.   The washer must shower after completing process.