JACKSON MEMORIAL IN MIAMI,
HATZEL VELA, LOCAL 10 NEWS.
>> Eric: HATZEL, THANK YOU.
>>> WE RETURN TO MUHAMMAD ALI
COVERAGE.
ISLAMIC PRAYER SERVICE IN
LOUISVILLE FOR THE BOXES LEGEN
LOUISVILLE FOR THE BOXES
LEGEND.
>> Constance: GO LIVE TO LOCAL
10 REPORTER AMY VITARI LIVE
OUTSIDE OF THE SERVICE.
>> Reporter: WELL, CONSTANCE,
PEOPLE ARE HERE FROM ALL OVER
THE WORLD TO ATTEND THIS
ISLAMIC PRAYER SERVICE FOR
MUHAMMAD ALI.
YOU CAN HEAR IT IS GOING ON
RIGHT NOW.
WHERE WE ARE, THIS IS AN
OVERFLOW AREA INSIDE THE
KENTUCKY EXPOSITION CENTER
BEYOND ALL THESE CAMERAS.
MANY OF THOSE ATTENDEES ARE
HERE, BUT THE ACTUAL GENOZA,
THE PRAYER SERVICE ITSELF
TAKING PLACE INSIDE FREEDOM
HALL AND WE HAVE LIVE PICTURES
FROM SIGNED THE HALL.
WE WANT TO TAKE THERE NOW WHERE
THE PRAYER SERVICE IS GOING
CONTINUE TO WHERE ALI'S CASKET
IS RIGHT NOW.
A SOLEMN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY OF
AN ISLAMIC PRAYER FOR HIS SOUL
AFTER HIS DEATH.
AND WE IS ALSO VIDEO WE HAVE
INSIDE THE CENTER.
PROMINENT FIGURES ALREADY IN
TOWN.
THE REVEREND JESSE JACKSON IS
AMONG THEM AND SPOTTED
RELIGIOUS LEADER LOUIS
FARRAKHAN.
ANOT ONLY FROM ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY BUT ALL OVER THE WORLD
TO HONOR MUHAMMAD ALI AND PAY
THEIR RESPECTS.
ONE COUPLE TRAVELED FROM
ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
ALI MADE A HUGE IMPACT ON THEM
AND THEIR COUNTRY AND THEY FELT
A NEED TO COME AND HONOR HIS
LIFE.
>> WE COME FROM ISTANBUL.
WE HEARD THE SAD NEWS WHEN
MUHAMMAD ALI PASSED AWAY, AND
IT WAS VERY BAD FOR US BECAUSE
NOT ONLY FOR THE ISLAM --
ISLAMIC, BUT BAD FOR UNITED
STATES, AMERICA, HUMANITY FOR
EVERY COUNTRY BECAUSE HE WAS --
HE WAS A VERY IMPORTANT AND
DIFFERENT PERSON.
HE DID SO MANY THINGS THAT --
WHICH THE POLITICIANS NEVER
ABLE TO DO.
>> Reporter: WE WANT TO TAKE
YOU BACK LIVE INSIDE FREEDOM
HALL WHERE THAT GENOZA SERVICE
IS UNDER WAY.
WE ARE TOLD A BRIEF CEREMONY
JUST ABOUT HALF AN HOUR.
BACK OUT HERE LIVE INSIDE THE
OVERFLOW AREA.
WE ARE CONTINUING TO SEE
PROMINENT PEOPLE ARRIVE HERE
TODAY AND MANY MORE AHEAD OF
TOMORROW'S FUNERAL SERVICE AS
WELL AS THAT MEMORIL SERVICE.
WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW
AFTERNOON.
WE WILL BE HERE FOR ALL OF IT
AND BRING YOU ANY UPDATE AS WE
GET THEM IN LOUISVILLE, AMY
VITARI, LOCAL 10 NEWS.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
LET'S INTRODUCE OUR FURTHER
COVERAGE.
MICHAEL PUTNEY IS HERE.
AND IN LIBERTARIAN.
ONE OF THE OLDEST MOSQUES HERE
IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
IS THAT RIGHT.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
IMAL, CAN YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE
BIT WHAT WE WILL BE SEEING
TODAY FROM LOUISVILLE?
>> ISLAMIC SERVICES ARE VERY,
VERY SIMPLE SERVICES.
THEY SAY 20 TO 30 MINUTES.
BUT ACTUALLY COUPLE OF MINUTES.
BEGIN BY SAYING -- VERY SHORT
PRAYERS IN BETWEEN EACH ONE.
AND RECITIN -- ASK FOR FORG
AND RECITING -- ASK FOR
FORGIVENESS -- AND ALSO PRAYS
FOR HIS WELL BEING AND THE NEXT
LIFE AND ALSO PRAYING FOR THOSE
PRESENT AND ASK GOD FOR FORGIV
PRESENT AND ASK GOD FOR
FORGIVENESS.
>> Michael: CAN YOU EXPLAIN
THE RITUALS FOR THE SERVICE.
WASHING THE BODY.
MEN HAVE WASHED THE BODY.
EXPLAIN THAT FOR US.
>> PART OF THE RITUAL IS VERY
IMPORTANT FOR THE BODY BE
WASHED.
MEN WASH MEN AND WOMEN WASH
WOMEN.
AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE AT
ALL TIMES THE PRIVATE AREA THE
PERSON IS NEVER EXPOSED.
EVEN THOUGH THE PERSON IS NUDE,
THAT PART IS COULD HAVE HAD.
THEY WASH THE PERSON.
GIVE THEM A COMPLETE WHAT WE
CA ROZO AND MAKE A -- FOR THE
PERSON AND WHEN THE PERSON IS
-- THE PERSON IS THEN SHROUDED
REQUEST THREE UNSTITCHED PIECES
OF MATERIAL.
WILL TAKE THE STITCHES OUT AND
WE USE THAT TO WRAP THE PERSON.
VERY, VERY SIMPLE.
>> Constance: I AM SORRY TO
APOLOGIZE 37 WE ARE SEEING THE
SERVICE.
LIVE PICTURES.
NORMALLY WHEN WE SEE MUSLIM
PRAYER, WE SEE PEOPLE BOWING.
YOU SAID A DIFFERENT TYPE OF
PRAYER RITUAL FOR THIS FUNERAL.
>> EVERYONE, THE MEN LINE UP
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER AND THE
WOMEN LINE UP SHOULDER TO
SHOULDER BEHIND THE MEN AND NO
-- YOU KNOW, NORMAL PRAYER.
YOU ARE JUST STANDING UP IN THE
POSITION -- EVERYONE STANDS AND
-- AND DOES THE PRAYER.
>> Michael: THE MEN ARE ALL
FACING MECCA?
>> THE BODY IS POSITIONED
FACING -- MECCA -- BUT ACTUALLY
THE DIRECTION THAT WE PRAY IN
WHIC HAPPENS TO BE MECCA,
SAUDI ARABIA AND THE PERSON
LINE UP FACING THAT WAY.
>> Eric: TAKE MOMENT TO LISTEN
IN ON WHAT IS BEING SAID TO
LISTEN TO THIS PRAYER SERVICE
FOR MUHAMMAD A ALI
[INAUDIBLE
FOLLOWING THAT, THERE IS A FOR
THE -- A PRAYER FOR MERCY, A
PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS, A
PRAYER FOR PARDON
AND YOU PRAY FROM THE DEPTH OF
YOUR HEART.
THE WORDS THAT ALL MITEY GOD
INSPIRES YOU WITH.
AFTER THAT THERE IS A FOURTH
EXTOLLING OF THE GREATNESS OF
ALL MIGHTY GOD, AND THERE IS A
PRAYER THAT THE BELIEVERS MAKE
THAT WE ARE NOT CAST INTO
TRIBULATION.
THAT WE ARE NOT SO DEVASTATED
BY THE GREAT, GREAT LOSS THAT
WE HAVE EXPERIENCED.
THAT WE LOSE OUR COMPOSURE OR
THAT WE ARE CAST INTO DEEP,
IRREPUTABLE DEPRESSION.
AND WE PRAY ONCE AGAIN FOR THE
DECEASED.
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAG
OH GOD, ALMIGHTY GOD, DON'T
DEPRIVE US OF HIS REWARD.
DON'T CAST US INTO TRIBULATION.
>> Eric: RIGHT NOW THE IMMAN
THAT WILL BE LEADING THE GENOZA
FOR HUMBERTO.
HE IS EXPLAINING FOR THE MANY
WHO GATHERED.
MANY NONMUSLIMS WHAT THE DAY IS
ALL ABOUT AND HOW THEY CAN HELP
HONOR AND CELEBRATE MUHAMMAD
ALI.
WE WILL STAY WITH THIS