Why do Muslims avoid post-mortem of dead bodies, is it forbidden in Islam or is there some other reason?

In India, post mortem of the dead body is done in any suspicious death, accident and murder etc. The reasons behind conducting an autopsy could be to find out the exact cause of death, to detect murder-suicide or accident, to detect a disease or epidemic and to pass an insurance claim, etc. But in India it has often been seen that a large section of the Muslim community avoids the post-mortem of the dead body and sometimes due to this they clash with the administration.

To resolve personal issues of Muslims in India as per Shariat. Muslim Personal Law Board Has been created. Which gives freedom to Muslims to solve some issues according to Shariat, but post mortem does not come into it. Even in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, post-mortems are conducted on suspicious deaths. Then why should Indian Muslims avoid this?

Mufti Shamoon Qasmi, cabinet minister in the Uttarakhand government and state Madrasa Board chairman, says that Shariat does not come before worldly law and the understanding that post-mortem is prohibited in Islam is the result of lack of information. While talking to TV-9 Bharatvarsha, Shamoon Qasmi said that in any suspicious death, it is difficult to find out the cause without post-mortem, nor are concessions like medical claims, government compensation etc. available without post-mortem. In such a situation, those who call post-mortem wrong are themselves unaware of Islamic law.

In Islam even the dead body is given respect like a living person.

Just as the ways of living life have been described in Islam, in the same way some instructions have been given regarding the dead body after death. Dr. Mohammad Raziul Islam Nadvi, National Secretary of Jamiat-e-Islami Hind, says that in Islam, there is a mandate to respect even the dead body like a living person. In post-mortem, the body is cut open and organs are removed. In such a situation, many people feel that the dead body of their close one will be dishonored.

Nadvi further says but Islam does not forbid postmortem, because it is necessary to investigate any suspicious death. Apart from this, big Muslim centers (Deoband, Al-Azhar, etc.) also have legal requirements, suspicion of any infectious disease and for the training of medical students (but this requires the permission or will of the patient). At the same time, post-mortem in any common death has been termed wrong by Muslim leaders.

What is the ruling in Islam regarding dead body?

The Quran and Hadith repeatedly insist that the deceased be buried as soon as possible. Postmortem takes several hours or days, which delays burial. Muslims believe that man should be buried in the grave in the same condition in which Allah created him and gave him death. Cutting the body into pieces or removing body parts is considered against this belief.

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