Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Museum today as evidence of the Quranic verse mentioned above. As is known, Pharaoh was a polytheist king. Despite this, God willed that his body be preserved. This shows that not only ordinary elements of cultural history, but even the body of a polytheist king, can be preserved. On this basis, it would be correct to say that preserving the two-thousand-year-old Buddha statues in Bamiyan is as desirable in Islam as it is in other traditions or disciplines. 3. In the context of the history of the Children of Israel, the Quran states that they possessed a hereditary Ark (a chest) that was preserved from generation to generation as a source of reassurance for them. In this Ark, relics belonging to the families of Moses and Aaron were preserved. In other words, this was exactly what is called cultural heritage in modern times. The Quran shows that this hereditary Ark was considered so important that, on one occasion, angels carried it from one place to another (2:248). I believe this is a clear example in the Quran of preserving cultural heritage. It underscores both the importance of cultural heritage and the fact that preserving it across generations is not against divine law.