[A Dhimmi: A name used for Christian or a Jewish women who married a Muslim man. The term refers back to the time Christians and Jews were protected under Islamic rule.]

An Egyptian living in the Netherlands, wrote to Aqidati asking whether his Kitabi [person believing in one of the other two "heavenly" religions accepted by Islam: Judaism and Christianity] wife can wash his body after his death or not. After exposing the different opinions concerning this matter, Sheikh Ibrahim Mohammed Reda Zaazou, gives his own opinion.