Al-Amanah Burial Services

The Problem#

• Islamic burial requires speed — ideally within 24 hours of death
• Al-Amanah provides Sharia-compliant burial services across East London, including ghusl (ritual washing), kafan (shrouding), janazah (funeral prayer), and burial in a Muslim section of the cemetery
• Funeral wishes recorded in a will are typically not seen by the funeral provider until days after the burial has already happened
• The family makes decisions under extreme time pressure without knowing what the deceased wanted
• Specific preferences — which cemetery, which imam, whether the family or the provider performs ghusl — are lost in an unread PDF

How They’d Use INHERIT#

• Al-Amanah receives wish.json entries with wishType: "funeral" from the deceased’s estate plan, carrying funeralArrangementType: "burial", funeralCeremonyType: "religious", funeralCeremonyReligion: "Sunni Islam", and bindingNature: "religiously_obligatory"
• funeralLocationPreference specifies the cemetery or section, and funeralProviderOrganisationId references Al-Amanah in organisation.json — confirming the deceased chose them as their preferred provider
• Additional wishes in free-text notes cover specific requests: preferred imam, Quran recitation preferences, whether ghusl should be performed by family members or the provider
• organisation.json for Al-Amanah carries organisationType: "funeral_provider", with regulatoryBody referencing NAFD or SAIF membership

The Integration#

• Al-Amanah registers with estate planning platforms to receive funeral wishes as soon as a death is recorded
• When a death notification triggers the estate workflow, the funeral wishes are pushed to Al-Amanah immediately — hours before probate, hours before the solicitor opens the will
• The family and the funeral provider are aligned from the first phone call

The Business Case#

• Al-Amanah handles approximately 400 burials per year
• An estimated 30% of families report distress about not knowing the deceased’s wishes in time — that is 120 families per year experiencing avoidable grief
• Being named as the preferred provider in an INHERIT document means the family calls Al-Amanah first, not a competitor — a direct referral channel
• Structured funeral wish delivery turns a chaotic, distressing process into a coordinated one within the 24-hour burial window

Before / After#

Without INHERIT:

1. A congregation member dies on a Wednesday afternoon
2. The family phones Al-Amanah in a state of distress — they need burial by Thursday
3. Al-Amanah asks about the deceased’s preferences: which cemetery? which imam? family ghusl or provider ghusl?
4. The family doesn’t know — the will is with the solicitor, and the office is closed until Friday
5. Decisions are made under extreme pressure; the burial happens without the deceased’s wishes being considered
6. The following week, the solicitor reads the will and discovers the deceased had specific burial preferences — too late

With INHERIT:

1. A congregation member dies on a Wednesday afternoon
2. The death notification triggers the estate workflow — funeral wishes are pushed to Al-Amanah within the hour
3. Al-Amanah sees the deceased wanted burial at City of London Cemetery, ghusl by the provider, and Imam Khalid to lead the janazah
4. When the family phones, Al-Amanah already knows exactly what their father wanted