Muslim Burial Society
About the Society

A community service,
forty years in the making.

Since 1986, MBS Perth has served every Muslim family in Perth who needed us — members and non-members alike. Volunteer-driven, not-for-profit, and accountable to the community we serve.

اَلْمُؤْمِنُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ كَالْبُنْيَانِ يَشُدُّ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا

“The believer to the believer is like a building — each part reinforcing the other.”

Sahih Bukhari & Muslim

In the mid-1980s, Perth’s Muslim community was small but growing, and the practical question of how a Muslim should be buried in Western Australia — correctly, affordably, and with dignity — rested on a handful of volunteers. In 1986, those volunteers formalised what had been informal: the Muslim Burial Society of Perth.

Forty years on, the community has grown many times over, but the commitment is unchanged. We are still volunteer-driven. We still answer the phone in the middle of the night. We still hold the view that the burial of a Muslim is the responsibility of the community, not of the family alone.

“Our work is fard kifayah — a duty held by the community, lifted from each individual once enough have stepped forward to bear it.”

Membership has grown, our fee structure has been formalised, and our coordination with Perth’s Islamic cemetery sections, local mosques, and the medical and legal authorities has become steady and well-practised. What hasn’t changed is the posture: that we serve, that we do not profit, and that the family in front of us is the family that matters.

What we do, in plain terms.

We coordinate every aspect of an Islamic burial in Perth: medical and legal paperwork, transport, ghusl and kafan, mosque and imam arrangements, cemetery booking, the burial itself, and follow-up support for the family. We do this for members at a reduced fee and for non-members at full cost — and we never turn away a family who cannot pay.

Governance.

The Society is governed by an elected committee, accountable to the membership at the annual general meeting. We are a registered not-for-profit operating in Western Australia, and our accounts are reviewed each year.

Full committee membership, ABN, and registration details to be confirmed and published here.

Our values

What guides us.

Dignity always

Every deceased Muslim — member or not, known to us or stranger — is buried with the same care and to the same standard. There is no first class.

Community-run, not commercial

We are not a business. We do not pay dividends. Surplus contributions are reinvested in equipment, training, and bursaries for hardship cases.

Knowledge with humility

Our volunteers train continuously in Islamic burial fiqh and in practical skills. We take counsel from local imams and consult on difficult cases.

Transparency in everything

Fees are published. Accounts are reviewed. Committee decisions are documented. The community can ask, and we answer.