What are the reasons for the spread of domes and graves from which the ignorant seek blessing?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, I mean the spread of domes in our current time and the graves from which the ignorant seek blessing, what are the reasons for this in your view, Shaykh Salih?

Answer:
Three matters. The first is ignorance and lack of knowledge, and this is the affliction of ignorance. The second matter is the callers to misguidance who call to the worship of graves and to building shrines and building mosques over graves. This is from the way of the Jews and the Christians.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians; they took because this is a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah). So when the ignorant see the Jews and the Christians doing this, they imitate them, even though the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) warned against it and cursed whoever does it. So it is not permissible to build over graves. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), "Do not leave a raised grave, meaning an elevated one, without leveling it, and do not leave an image without erasing it." So it is not permissible to build over graves. These people disobeyed the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and built over graves and raised them. The first time this happened was after the blessed centuries. After the blessed centuries. Especially when the Fatimid Shi'ah, the Batiniyyah, took over Egypt and the surrounding areas, they spread the Quburiyyah and the Sufiyyah in the community, so it spread from that time.
And so, as time recedes, the strangeness of the religion intensifies, and it needs renewal and clarification and explanation to the people of what they do not have, as no one explains it to them. So they fell into what they fell into. If the people of knowledge had stood for Allah the Exalted and purified the lands from this shirk (associating partners with Allah), it would have been purified. But when the people of knowledge and the people of religion fell short, the people of evil and the people of shirk and the people of idolatry became bold, and they spread these bid'ah (religious innovations) and superstitions among the Muslims until they thought them to be part of the religion, and that whoever denied them had denied the religion in their view. Yes. May Allah reward you.