What is the ruling on placing a concrete pillar in a cemetery to build a staircase for expanding the mosque?

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh! In our village, there is a mosque located in the center of the village, and next to it is a cemetery adjacent to this mosque. No one has been buried in it for more than twenty years. When the mosque was renovated and a second floor was built, a single concrete pillar was placed in the cemetery, and a staircase to the second floor was installed on it, due to the narrowness of the space. What is the ruling on placing this pillar in the cemetery?

The Shaykh:
First, the mosque being adjacent to the cemetery is not permissible.

The presenter:
There must be a separation between the mosque

The Shaykh:
and the entire cemetery, such as a street or open land. It is not permissible for the cemetery to be adjacent to the mosque, because this is part of building mosques on graves. Therefore, the cemetery must be separated from the mosque, and it is not permissible to use the cemetery by placing a pillar for the mosque or a wall for the mosque. This is not permissible. This action is not permissible. So the party that carried out this work must reconsider this and correct this action, and separate the cemetery from the mosque completely. Yes.