{"id":6735,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/regarding-cremation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:27","slug":"regarding-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/regarding-cremation\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding Cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>What is the Islamic stance on cremation? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>I am afraid the  issue of cremation never arose during the life of the Prophet (sws).  Therefore, we do not have any Qur\u2019anic verse or a prophetic saying in  this regard. The Sunnah (practices established as a part of the  religion) requires the Muslims to bury their dead after washing the  corpse and clothing it in a shroud. This practice is based on divine  guidance, and it distinguishes the Muslim tradition from others. 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Therefore, we believe that cremation should be avoided. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6735\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Islamic stance on cremation? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[2547,2206],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic-customs","tag-cremation","tag-dead-body"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Regarding Cremation - 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