The history of burning men is said to be very old. In ancient times, firewood was collected and burned. Electric stoves and modern kilns have come into the field. Many companies in the United States and Europe now offer cremation services. In modern automatic machines, the whole process is done under the supervision of skilled craftsmen and the backlogs have to be pressed with just one button. In a matter of seconds, under the automatic system, the pyre enters the electric furnace on one side, passes through the furnace at a temperature of nine hundred to one thousand degrees Celsius, and then in two to three hours weighs two and a half kilograms on the other side. The ashes are received by the children. The rest of the piles are converted into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere. It works instantly.
Even during World War II, the "civilized" nations resorted to this method of displacing thousands of useful human beings in a short period of time. According to the Hindus, the human body is a mixture of five things: air, water, fire, earth, and the sky... It is necessary to return the body of the deceased to all these things so that he can return to this world in the form of another body. After becoming secular or modern, many Christians are now using this modern technology for the last rites of their men.
Apart from Hindus, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism also burn their men's corpses. However, Hindus also bury sadhus and infants in the ground instead of burning them because they do not think it is the sin of innocent children and sadhus to be burnt and purified. Parsis (arsonists) take the worst approach to their men. They do not bury or burn but are left on a tall tower (silent tower) where the carcasses become food for hungry donkeys and crows. They say that when a demon is dissolved in the human body, he dies, that is, death is the name of dissolving the evil spirit in the body. They consider fire, water, and earth to be sacred, so it is not proper to touch an evil thing with sacred objects, so a corpse cannot be buried, cremated, or drowned. The only solution is to leave the body in the open air and let it become a natural food for nature.
The practice of cremation is on the rise in the United States. About half of the dead bodies are burned there. Fifty years ago, that number was negligible. The main reason for this increase is the rising cost of burial. China tops the list with over 4.5 million annuals. Ninety-nine percent of the dead are cremated in Japan, the highest rate in the world.
Islam commands respect for the dead in the same way. It is a guide to behave with dignity. It is commanded to wash him, wash him, wrap him in a clean cloth, apply perfume, etc., and perform his funeral prayers with honor, and this has been declared obligatory. Even enemies are not allowed to mutilate or desecrate corpses.
There is a very clear statement in the Qur'an in this regard. Allah, the Exalted, says in Surah Al-Ma'ida that when Cain, the son of Adam (peace be upon him) killed Abel, he became very worried about what to do with the body of his slain brother. When he did not understand anything, Allah Almighty sent a crow. Then Allah sent a crow to dig the earth to show him how to hide his brother's body. Seeing this, he said, "I'm sorry!" I could not be like the raven that devised a plan to hide his brother's body, after which he regretted what he had done. ”(Al-Maa'idah, verse 31) They don't even know what to do.