An Egyptian preacher forbids displaying mummies in museums: "The history of my ancestors is presented for money?! He must return to the cemeteries immediately!"

Ahmed Karima, Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence and Islamic Law at Al-Azhar University, said that exhuming the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, exhuming their remains from them and displaying them in museums, is forbidden according to Sharia.

The Islamic preacher added, during televised statements, that the earth, in embracing the body of the dead, resembles the womb of the mother in embracing and sheltering the fetus, indicating that man was originally created from dust, and then returned to him after his death, citing the saying of God Almighty: ".

Ahmed Karima stressed the sanctity of exhuming the tombs of the pharaohs and exhuming their bodies in order to display them in museums as slaves in exchange for a handful of money.

He continued, denouncing: "The history of my ancestors is offered in exchange for money?! The history of my ancestors is not necessary to return the tombs immediately, reinforced and honorable," adding: "If I had an opinion in this country, I would have ordered the return of all the bodies of the pharaohs to the tombs immediately." 

The Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence and Islamic Law at Al-Azhar University indicated that the only reason that allows exhuming graves and exhuming bodies from them is the medical reason, indicating that the concerned authorities in the state are entitled to do so, not archaeological excavation groups or ordinary individuals.

Regarding the sanctity of the dead, and the obligation to leave him in his grave, Dr. Ahmed Karima drew attention to what the scholars said before him, that the grave of the dead resembles his residence in the state of life, so it is not right and it is not permissible to open his grave over him or take him out of him without a legitimate reason.

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