Converting Old Graveyards into Gardens and Open Spaces for Neighborhoods
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people say that the living have priority over the dead, and therefore in some countries they take very old graveyards and turn them into gardens and open spaces for the living. Is this permissible?
Answer:
This is forbidden. Graveyards have become the dwelling place of the dead, and it is not permissible to encroach upon their dwellings and graves. The dead have priority over their graves, which the living inhabited and in which they were buried.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people say that the living have priority over the dead, and therefore in some countries they take very old graveyards and turn them into gardens and open spaces for the living. Is this permissible?
Answer:
This is forbidden. Graveyards have become the dwelling place of the dead, and it is not permissible to encroach upon their dwellings and graves. The dead have priority over their graves, which the living inhabited and in which they were buried.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 07-11-1436هـ — alfawzan.live (1:13:55)
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