Visiting Graves: Between the Lawful and the Polytheistic
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Question:
I move on to another questioner. He says: May Allah protect you, Muhammad Sadiq Sudani, a resident of the Kingdom. He asks about visiting graves, as it has become a custom in their village. If we do not visit the graves and seek blessing from them, we are accused of being undutiful to the person buried there. What is your guidance, may Allah protect you?
Answer:
Visiting graves is of two types: the lawful visit, which is for taking a lesson and being admonished by the dead and their conditions, and for greeting them and making du'a' (supplication) for the deceased. This has benefit for the visitor and benefit for the one visited. This is lawful. As for the polytheistic visit, it is the one in which one calls for aid from the dead or seeks blessing from them. This is shirk (associating partners with Allah), and may Allah protect us from it. Yes.
I move on to another questioner. He says: May Allah protect you, Muhammad Sadiq Sudani, a resident of the Kingdom. He asks about visiting graves, as it has become a custom in their village. If we do not visit the graves and seek blessing from them, we are accused of being undutiful to the person buried there. What is your guidance, may Allah protect you?
Answer:
Visiting graves is of two types: the lawful visit, which is for taking a lesson and being admonished by the dead and their conditions, and for greeting them and making du'a' (supplication) for the deceased. This has benefit for the visitor and benefit for the one visited. This is lawful. As for the polytheistic visit, it is the one in which one calls for aid from the dead or seeks blessing from them. This is shirk (associating partners with Allah), and may Allah protect us from it. Yes.
Source
قناة «مؤسسة الدعوة الخيرية»، فتاوى على الهواء 19-11-1434هـ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:03:54)
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