<b>Guidance from the Hadith:</b><br> 1) The righteous dead person hopes for Allah’s reward, for he knows the good awaiting for him with his Lord.<br> 2) It shows the Prophet’s guidance in education, as he mentioned both fear and hope.<br> <br> <b>Benefit:</b><br> His words “and the people – or the men – carry it on their shoulders” indicate that the deceased should not be carried in car, for the following reasons:<br> 1) This is a tradition among the disbelievers, and the Shariah prohibits us from imitating and copying them.<br> 2) This contradicts the Prophet’s guidance in carrying the dead persons.<br> 3) Missing the benefit and lesson to be gained from carrying the bier and people seeing it.<br> You should know, fellow believer, that when remembrance of death disappeared from the hearts of the disbelieving nations and they indulged in vain desires and worldly pleasures, they started to avoid any reminder of death. So, they place their dead within these closed boxes inside cars.<br> 4) It is a strong reason for reducing the number of those who follow the funeral procession in pursuit of the reward. Not everyone can join the funeral in this manner.<br> 5) Holding the funeral through cars and motorcades does not accord with the simplicity and ease of the Islamic Shariah in terms of keeping away from formalities with regard to death.<br> Excluded from this prohibition is anything dictated by need, such as the graves being quite far, in which case we can do so as much as needed, without engaging in such formalities.