If a Muslim dies in Europe, he is placed in a refrigerator for several days. Does this contradict the expediting of the burial of the deceased?

The questioner : The Sunnah came with the command to hasten the burial of the deceased.

The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.

The questioner : So, if a person dies and we want to transport him to his country, for example, Morocco or Algeria, he must remain with them in the refrigerator for four or five days, due to travel procedures and so on. Does this contradict...?

The Shaykh : All these matters are among the consequences of residing in a land of disbelief. Therefore, we stipulate that there must be an Islamic cemetery; otherwise, it is not permissible to settle there, even if the condition we mentioned earlier is met. It has come in an authentic hadith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by the graves of the Muslims and said, may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him, the meaning of which is, for I am far from this hadith: or as he said. Then he passed by the graves of the polytheists and said regarding them: or as he said, may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him. The purpose of this hadith is the separation between the graves of the Muslims and the graves of the disbelievers, just as is the case, completely, in our lecture mentioned earlier, between the dwellings of the Muslims and the dwellings of the disbelievers. Perhaps you remember from those hadiths his saying, may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him: meaning: the dwellings of the polytheists should not be close to the dwellings of the Muslims, or the dwellings of the Muslims should not be close to the dwellings of the polytheists. What do you say if the dwellings of the Muslims are within the dwellings of the disbelievers? And as they say in the colloquial language, "a complete mixture." This is very dangerous.
The same applies to the dead of the Muslims; it is obligatory that they have their own separate dwellings, which are the Islamic graves.