The ruling on moving old graves to build a sports club in their place
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In our village, there is an old cemetery that is over a hundred years old. Long ago, out of ignorance, when we were young, we erased the grave markers and turned that area in our village into a football field. He says: Now, a merchant has moved these graves collectively using excavators to another cemetery, and he wants to build a sports club in their place in our village?
Answer:
This is all bad conduct. Why did you not return to the people of knowledge? Why did you not issue a fatwa from the people of knowledge regarding this cemetery? It is not permissible to encroach upon cemeteries except after returning to the people of knowledge to examine the case: is the transfer necessary, or is it not necessary? Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In our village, there is an old cemetery that is over a hundred years old. Long ago, out of ignorance, when we were young, we erased the grave markers and turned that area in our village into a football field. He says: Now, a merchant has moved these graves collectively using excavators to another cemetery, and he wants to build a sports club in their place in our village?
Answer:
This is all bad conduct. Why did you not return to the people of knowledge? Why did you not issue a fatwa from the people of knowledge regarding this cemetery? It is not permissible to encroach upon cemeteries except after returning to the people of knowledge to examine the case: is the transfer necessary, or is it not necessary? Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 12-02-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (1:02:34)
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