{"id":9071,"date":"2017-04-18T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:49:53","slug":"can-a-doctor-sign-a-cremation-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/can-a-doctor-sign-a-cremation-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a doctor sign a cremation form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 02162<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by&nbsp;<\/strong>Molana Muhammad Adnan<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">I am working as a doctor in UK. We are supposed to do&nbsp;cremation forms for some of the deceased. Afterwards we are paid from&nbsp;the fee taken from the relatives\/other unknown source. Our job is to&nbsp;verify death and to make sure there is no pacemaker or any other device.&nbsp;In most of the cases cremation is in accordance to the wish of the&nbsp;deceased. Is the fee Halal?<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bismillah\" height=\"50\" src=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"267\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">If you are the main and direct cause for a sin (meaning if the cause would not have been present, there was no reason for the sin to occur), it will be unlawful (haram) otherwise it will be disliked (makruh).&rdquo; (Radd al-Muhtar)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">In this instance it would not be Makruh either because your job is a totally separate department that deals with a separate issue, which is to verify death and make sure there is no pacemaker or any other device.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>And Allah Ta&rsquo;ala knows best<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Written by Molana Muhammad Adnan<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 02162 Answered by&nbsp;Molana Muhammad Adnan Question: I am working as a doctor in UK. 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