TY  - JOUR
T1  - Rulings of Mummification in Islamic Law
AU - Husni, Ahmad Bin Muhammad 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 8
IS  - 6
SP  - 636
EP  - 645
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2013.636.645
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2013.636.645
KW  - the purpose of Shariah (Maqasid Shariah)
KW  -human
KW  -Mummification
KW  -protection of life
KW  -scholors
AB  - The right to life is sacred in the eyes of the Shariah. Allah 
  (swt) created man, dignified him and preferred him on my creatures with reason, 
  knowledge, expression, nice and noble shape when he was in the womb and in all 
  stages until he was created by Allah, the best of creators. The Shariah has 
  forbidden unjust attack on someone even a dead body it is not allowed to tamper 
  with it. The problem lies in some questions about mummification and differences 
  of opinions and fatwa related to that in terms of medical perspective or for 
  other purposes. Thus, this study aims to highlight ruling of mummification in 
  the Shariah which aims at protection of life and to highlight the views of contemporary 
  jurists regarding the issue and also the opinions of medical doctors. The study 
  followed the induction and historical approach to study the opinions of jurists 
  and scholars to detect the ruling with the changes through time. The study concluded 
  that mummification of human corpse is prohibited because it is a violation of 
  Allah’s way of burial even if 
  it is for the sake of study or research and mummification of animals and birds 
  is prohibited as well if it is for the purpose of adornment and boasting because 
  it is a waste of money.
ER  -