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Question:
Why
do Muslims bury dead bodies instead of cremating them, i.e.
burning them?
Answer:
1.
Components of human body present in the soil
Elements that are present in the human body are present in
lesser or greater quantity in the soil. Hence it is more scientific
to bury a dead body, as it easily gets decomposed and mixed
in the soil.
2. No Pollution
Cremating (burning) the dead body leads to pollution
of the atmosphere which is detrimental to health and harmful
for the environment. There is no such pollution caused by
burying a dead body.
3. Surrounding land becomes fertile
To cremate a dead body several trees have to be chopped,
which reduces the greenery and harms the environment and
the ecology. When dead bodies are buried, besides the trees
being saved, the surrounding land becomes fertile and it
improves the environment.
4. Economical
It is expensive to cremate a dead body when tons of wood
have to be burned. Annually there is a loss of crores of
rupees, only because dead bodies are cremated in India.
Burying dead bodies is very cheap. It hardly costs any money.
5. Same land can be utilised for burying another
body
The wood used for cremating a dead body cannot be reutilised
for cremating another dead body since it gets converted
to ashes. The land used for burying a dead body can be reutilised
for burying another body after a few years since the human
body gets decomposed and mixed in the soil.
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