Corpse City Cairo
Death is less interesting topics to be discussed even though all living things in this world is going to feel it, but I am intrigued to raise this issue if the roots of its culture is Egypt, the country that made me admire him because his name mentioned in many religious scriptures which I have adopted.
All must know, Egypt is a country that passes through so many periods in every inch of his history, so that inevitably the Egyptian culture can be said to be a culture of “cocktail” or mixed culture of all civilizations, though of course there are civilizations that are now dominated by the civilizations Islam. This is also affecting how people look in the case of the death of Egypt.
Places that interest me about death are the two cities, first in Dua’ia (Du’aiqoh) and the second in Tubromli, an area that includes very close to the apartment which I dwell. The first time I had in mind when looking at the exact place of the dead vast cemetery is in two towns in Cairo is no feeling haunted and spooky at all. Almost every day when lectures at Al-Azhar is on, I always pass through his city of the dead in Du’aiah. You need to know, Dua’iah is one area in the cemetery since Islam was introduced to Egypt. Tomb inhabited by people at the time of Salahuddin Al-Ayyubid the conqueror of Jerusalem, as well as the human grave from the Fatimid dynasty which had thousands of years old.
In fact, the strangeness of it actually incurred by the existence of another fact that makes my eyes wide open. That almost all (substitute the word a lot), the tombs were always a doorman or people who make the tomb as a home and their average is the poor who do not have a house in Cairo.
It turns out that make them feel at home in the cemetery is one of these forms in Cairo is not the same cemetery with graves of the cemetery like in Indonesia, although there are some of the same. Tombs in Cairo in design as well as the house with a living room, has a water channel and the rooms even have a dome like a mosque.
Interestingly again, this body houses have bunker.
Dead bodies were not buried in Cairo, they just put in a room that is under ground. They are arranged in such a way like a set of goods. I never mentioned this problem to my teacher because of the way as it was not buried there in a way that Islam as I learned in the books of Fiqh, he was a doctor named DR. Mathrowi, a graduate of the University of Cairo, he explained the case from the angle of the soil structure in Cairo.
Land in Cairo in the form of fine sand, this is causing way to bury the dead could not be done like a way of burying the Islamic system by making a hole so many yards, then there is a special place for corpses, and so on like in Indonesia. When done by way of burying the Islamic system, then the land will be landslides. That is why they chose the way bunker in burying corpses, anyway for a year the bodies were still going to rot and become bone.