Common questions asked by Hindus about Islam
Q5. Burying better than cremating
dead bodies?
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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