What is the ruling on distinguishing between the graves of men and women with a specific marker for the man and another for the woman?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The Honorable Shaykh says: In our village, there is a distinction made between the graves of men and women by placing one brick for the man and two bricks for the woman. Is this permissible or forbidden?
Answer:
This has no basis. Distinguishing between the grave of a woman and the grave of a man has no basis, and this is not known from the Salaf. People are equal in their graves: men and women, the rich and the poor, kings and beggars, scholars and the ignorant. People are equal in them, and no one is distinguished from another, because they are all Muslims, and no one has a distinction over another.[Al-Hujurat 49:13] A man, or perhaps a woman may be better than thousands of men if she is more mindful of Allah the Exalted. So the grave of a woman is not distinguished from the grave of a man. Yes.
May Allah reward you. The Honorable Shaykh says: In our village, there is a distinction made between the graves of men and women by placing one brick for the man and two bricks for the woman. Is this permissible or forbidden?
Answer:
This has no basis. Distinguishing between the grave of a woman and the grave of a man has no basis, and this is not known from the Salaf. People are equal in their graves: men and women, the rich and the poor, kings and beggars, scholars and the ignorant. People are equal in them, and no one is distinguished from another, because they are all Muslims, and no one has a distinction over another.
Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you
إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم التفريق بين قبور الرجال والنساء بعلامة مميزة للرجل وأخرى للمرأة؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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