Not permitted
Islam and cremation
No. Islamic law prohibits cremation by the consensus of scholars across all major schools. A Muslim who dies is washed (ghusl), shrouded (kafan), prayed over (Salat al-Janazah), and buried, ideally without delay. If your family is Muslim, you need an Islamic burial provider, not a cremation company — and we will help you find one.
Prohibited by scholarly consensus.
Why cremation is impermissible in Islam
Islamic funeral law rests on the dignity of the human body as God’s creation. The Prophet Muhammad taught that breaking the bone of a dead person is like breaking it in life, and the unbroken practice of the Muslim community from the beginning has been washing, shrouding, the janazah prayer, and burial facing the qiblah. On this the four Sunni schools and Shia jurisprudence agree: cremation is haram, and Muslim councils in North America — including the Fiqh Council of North America and the Islamic Society of North America — state it plainly in their burial guidance.
Burial is also a communal obligation (fard kifayah): the local Muslim community is responsible for seeing it done properly. That is why every sizable mosque community, including many across Dallas–Fort Worth, maintains or partners with an Islamic funeral service.
What we do when a Muslim family calls
We say what this page says. Cremation is not an option Islam permits, at any price, and a company that sells it to a grieving Muslim family without saying so is not being honest with them. DFW has established Islamic funeral services and mosque burial committees that handle ghusl, shrouding, janazah, and burial — your mosque is the right first call, and if you are unsure where to turn, phone us and we will point you to Islamic resources rather than book a cremation.
Where the person who died was not Muslim but relatives are, we serve the family while being frank about what Muslim relatives can and cannot take part in — most will attend a memorial gathering but not the cremation itself.
How we serve Muslim families
- We do not sell cremation to families seeking an Islamic funeral; we redirect them to mosque burial committees and Islamic funeral providers in DFW.
- We answer after-hours calls from any family, including simply to point them to the right provider.
- For mixed-faith families, we plan services so Muslim relatives can participate where their faith allows.
Our direct cremation is $1,750, all-inclusive, answered live at (214) 550-7369 any hour. What it covers — and what it does not — is published on our pricing page; how the process runs is on how it works.
Primary sources
Doctrinal statements on this page cite the documents below. Where we link, we link the issuing body itself; where a document has no stable public link, we cite it by name.
- Islamic burial guidance — Islamic Society of North America
- Rulings on funeral rites and cremation — Fiqh Council of North America
Questions families ask
Is cremation ever permitted for Muslims?
No. The scholarly consensus across Sunni and Shia jurisprudence prohibits cremation. Even where burial is difficult or costly, the obligation on the community is to bury, and Muslim organizations exist in DFW specifically to make that possible.
What should a Muslim family in Dallas do first?
Call your mosque. Most DFW mosque communities have a burial committee or a relationship with an Islamic funeral service that handles ghusl, shrouding, the janazah prayer, and burial — often within a day.
Why does a cremation company publish this?
Because people search the question and deserve the true answer. Being the right provider for many families includes being honest about the families we should not serve.
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