Allah' Plan for the Dead
Dec, 25. 2001
By: Mamluk
My understanding of Muslim burial of the dead is
that a dead person is buried and kept in the burial ground until the Day
of Judgment when he/she is resurrected and judged by angel Gabriel who
will determine whether he/she will go to heaven or hell depending on
his/her performance when he/she was alive. The process will be repeated
for all Muslims who number over a billion on earth today. Non-observance
of this burial practice is an unpardonable deviation from Islamic
Principles whereby the person involved will not be considered a good
Muslim and will surely not go to heaven. The Day of Judgment may come
within a year or a thousand year or anytime in between or after that.
While the Muslims are confident in their knowledge
that there is in heaven and hell sufficient space available for all
resurrected Muslim men for their daily activities, such as, reclining in
expensive couches, feasting on choicest dishes( I have not found out
where those expert chefs come from. I will not be surprised if many of
them are from Pakistan and Afganistan because they make excellent naans
and fairly good tandoory chicken whereas most Egyptians and many Arabs
relish on fried camel's testicles as I have been told), frolicking and
having never-ending sex each with 72 white-skinned, wide-eyed Houris
with a few good-looking boys joining them now and then, elaborate
torture chambers for the deviant Muslims and all non-Muslims, the
implication and effects of this scheme of governance, as designed by
Allah(Praise be upon Allah) and Mohammed(PBUH) for Bangladesh is
enormous if one thinks about it. I have not found out in Quran or in
Haadiths exactly how Muslim women are evaluated on the Day of Judgment
and exactly how and where they are dispatched after it is all said and
done.
Anyway, the implication for Bangladesh may be understood rather easily
when one thinks about the land area of Bangladesh available to
Bangadeshi Muslims to do their things. Bangladesh currently has a
population of 130 million souls of which 88% are Muslims(source: World
ALMANAC 2002). The surface area of land needed for burial of an adult is
usually 2 sq. yd.=2 yd x 1 yd. I square mile land area is equal to
3097600 square yards where 1.5 million Muslims can be buried shoulder to
shoulder. Current Bangladeshi Muslim population will need about 8 sq.
miles of land area after they die in preparation for the biggest day in
their existence(dead or alive), namely, Day of Judgment which they must
face in front of angel Gabriel. When one keeps in mind that millions of
Bangladeshi Muslims have already died in historical times and the fact
that 60% of land in Bangladesh must be reserved for agriculture with an
additional 25% of land reserved for other human activities, Allah(Praise
be upon Allah) must have some contingency plan for countries like
Bangladesh for storage of those dead bodies. I wish I knew the plan.
Other peoples of Abrahamic faiths also believe in
basically similar concepts. However, many Christians and Jews in Europe(
a few in other Christian countries) are resorting to cremation not
knowing if their Gods will bestow on them the same favor that
Allah(Praise be upon Allah) is considering seriously for the Muslims of
Bangladesh and may be for the Muslims of the rest of the world.
Incidentally, it costs between $5000.00 and $10,000.00 to bury one
corpse in the United States today.
From a scientific and utilitarian point of view,
land is for the use of the living- human beings, animals, birds and
plants. Of course insects are there everywhere. It is criminal to use up
land for storage of corpses. Time is approaching fast when some Muslim
nations will need to sit down with Allah's(Praise be upon Allah) agents
and consider and plead for major amendments to Allah's(praise be upon
Allah) basic plan for disposal of corpses.
Here I include some quotatios from a recent
newpaper report that has great bearing to the article Allah's Plan.
Quotations are as follows:
"Attorneys suing a cemetery company accused
of recycling graves showed grisly photos and video footage Thursday of
crudhed vaults and human remains discarded in the woods";
"That body is placced to rest for eternity
is now destroyed, maligned and abused";
"There are several hundred people who have
purchased graves, premium contracts years ago, that do not have a
place to be laid to rest";
"Whenever her mother died last year, the
cemetery operators dug up the man's vault and threw most of his(her
father) remains in the woods".
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