What is the validity of the statement that among the rights of the deceased upon the Muslims is that greenery be placed in the graveyards?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. One of them, who holds a doctorate, wrote demanding that graves not be in desert land that raises dust for the visitors and that the sun scorches them, and that among the rights of the deceased upon the Muslims is that greenery be placed in these graveyards. How? Greenery in them.
Answer:
May Allah protect us, this is an ignorant person, or rather a misleader, may Allah protect us. He does not place greenery in them, nor does he place anything else, but if he said that they should be paved or watered so that the dust is prevented, that might be acceptable from him. As for placing greenery in them, yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. One of them, who holds a doctorate, wrote demanding that graves not be in desert land that raises dust for the visitors and that the sun scorches them, and that among the rights of the deceased upon the Muslims is that greenery be placed in these graveyards. How? Greenery in them.
Answer:
May Allah protect us, this is an ignorant person, or rather a misleader, may Allah protect us. He does not place greenery in them, nor does he place anything else, but if he said that they should be paved or watered so that the dust is prevented, that might be acceptable from him. As for placing greenery in them, yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما صحة هذا القول أن من حقوق الأموات على المسلمين أن يُجعل المقابر فيها خضرة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.