Is it permissible to subscribe to insurance for transporting bodies to a Muslim country, due to the high cost of transport and the inability to bear it or save for it, and to avoid cremation if funds are not available?
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A Muslim is to be honored, alive or dead. Burning the body of a Muslim after death is tantamount to burning them alive. If it is impossible to bury the bodies of deceased Muslims or send them to an Islamic country except at an exorbitant cost, then there is no harm in subscribing to insurance for this necessity, for Allah Almighty says: "And He has elaborated for you what He has forbidden to you, excepting that to which you are compelled."
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