What is the ruling on circumambulating a cemetery for the purpose of exercise?
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Question:
This questioner says: There is a cemetery surrounded by sidewalks and prepared for exercise, and people walk around it for the purpose of exercise. Is that a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
What is in it? I am ending with this cemetery. In any case, this is not permissible. I mean, this is imitating those who circumambulate graves. It is imitation. And someone may come and think that they are circumambulating the graves. Do not follow their example. I mean, the world has become so narrow that there is no place for people to exercise except the cemetery. Yes.
This questioner says: There is a cemetery surrounded by sidewalks and prepared for exercise, and people walk around it for the purpose of exercise. Is that a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
What is in it? I am ending with this cemetery. In any case, this is not permissible. I mean, this is imitating those who circumambulate graves. It is imitation. And someone may come and think that they are circumambulating the graves. Do not follow their example. I mean, the world has become so narrow that there is no place for people to exercise except the cemetery. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الطواف حول مقبرة بقصد الرياضة؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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