Is burning the dead body allowed in Islam if one prefers to be?
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NO..
It is considered highly disrespectful of the dead in Islam.
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Is burning the dead body allowed in Islam if one prefers to be?
Why? Do you want to avoid qabar ka azaab? :)
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^there was a haqayat about that. where a sinner requests to be burned and has his ashes scattered all over. When he is presented in front of Allah and is inquired as to why he made such an odd request, he replied by saying out of fear of not being forgiven and thus Allah showed him kindness by forgiving him.
But knowing that incident i wouldnt wanna be anything other than buried in a kachi grave. Allah is oft forgiving.
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not allowed....
and that story is of someone from the previous nations....
now its certainly not allowed for muslims....
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Not opinions people please reply in reference to Quran. Does it say anywhere clearly that it is strictly forbidden or haraam?
I know it is tradition and probably recommended but is it just sunnah that has become a tradition and Muslims make a big deal out of it as if it is farz. For example circumcision or cutting new born’s hair is only sunnaha but many Muslims act like as if it is farz and not doing it is GUNNAHA.
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Why? Do you want to avoid qabar ka azaab? :)
I am not worried about azaby kabar. God have been good to me & I am sure inshallah he will be later on too :)
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I know it is tradition and probably recommended but is it just sunnah that has become a tradition and Muslims make a big deal out of it as if it is farz.
But can't the same thing be said for many, many practices?
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But can't the same thing be said for many, many practices?
This is what I am trying to figure out if it is farz or just a sunnha which has become tradition.
My family had no problem with me preferring a non-traditional burial but I met some people few days ago who think this is haraam but had no reference to back it up from Quran or authentic ahadeas at that time.
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I tried to look up the source but cant find it right now, but i am also of the understanding that muslims are to be buried and preferably in sunnah manner. Cermation is not allowed. However i will try to hunt the reference for you.
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here is one link
http://www.iqra.net/Hadith/deathburial.php
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and this is directly about cremation
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545494
“In Islam, funeral rites and practices have been prescribed by the divine law, in accordance with the dictates of Allah. According to this law, beginning from the time of Prophet Adam until the last Prophet, Muhammad, peace and blessing be upon them all, burying the dead has been the prescribed method of conveying the deceased to their graves. We have no mention anywhere that cremation was acceptable in any of the previous dispensations from Allah.
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It still does not ot prove that it is farz or a must. Just sounds like a recommended mehotd.
It also says that "Graves should not be plastered". Which they are almost always are now.
Thanks for the reply.
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^ i hope you didn’t just read what i posted in 12 rather you checked the link
*First of all, it should be clear that Islam, as a divine religion, respects man when alive or dead. It’s totally rejected in Islam for one to show any sign of disrespect or harm to a dead body, for it’s a unique characteristic of Islam to cater for the welfare of man in this world and the world to come. *
*Answering the question you posed, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states: *
*“In Islam, funeral rites and practices have been prescribed by the divine law, in accordance with the dictates of Allah. According to this law, beginning from the time of Prophet Adam until the last Prophet, Muhammad, peace and blessing be upon them all, burying the dead has been the prescribed method of conveying the deceased to their graves. We have no mention anywhere that cremation was acceptable in any of the previous dispensations from Allah. *
*Allah says in the Qur’an: “We have honored sons of Adam.” (Al-Isra’: 70) In keeping with the spirit of this Qur’anic verse, according to the Muslim scholars, it is necessary for us to treat the human body with the utmost of respect not only when a person is alive, but also when he/she is dead. *
*Incinerating the corpse or discarding bodies to be eaten by vultures, wild beasts, etc., is considered sacrilege and abhorrent and, therefore, forbidden according to Islam. *
*One of the reasons for this is that our knowledge of what happens to the person after death is limited, and, therefore, Allah alone knows what is good and bad for us in an ultimate sense. *
*What should be remembered here is that we should treat the deceased person with the utmost of compassion, just as we would treat a person who is alive. *
*In short, cremation is not a divinely instituted method of burying the human body after death. Like all other man-made institutions, cremation is based on partial knowledge. It is only Allah, our Creator, “who knows what ails us as well as what benefits us.” (Al-Baqarah: 220) *
*Another important observation is that it has been proven that burying the dead is more environmentally friendly than cremation. This further confirms the dictum that Allah has “forbidden for us only what is injurious or harmful for us (or for our environment.)” *
*Excerpted, with slight modifications, from: *http://www.islam.ca](http://www.islam.ca)
akalmand ra ishara kafi
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*Incinerating the corpse or discarding bodies to be eaten by vultures, wild beasts, etc., is considered sacrilege and abhorrent and, therefore, forbidden according to Islam. *
But leaving a body to rot and be eaten by worms and bugs is treating it with respect?
Face it, cremation is one of those areas that has been traditionally been intrepretred as haram because it was culturally unacceptable at the time and place of sciptural revelation.
Culture becomes tradition becomes sunnah becomes farz becomes Islamic.
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^ aye, says fatwa from mullah seminole.
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^:rotfl: …mufti seminole in more appropriate.
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I prefer the title of sahib, thank you very much. Tell you the truth though, I think fatwas are way over rated. One should be able to read their holy book and understand God w/o incorporating the interpretation, culture, history and tradition of others.
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^Mufti Seminole Sahib.
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Since Islamic law is not the law of the land, perhaps mufti isn't accurate. A nice secular title like advisor should suffice.