Solving the problem of the grave chamber collapsing in soft cemetery soil
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, in our village the cemetery ground is hard at the beginning of digging, but at the end it becomes soft. So when we dig and then want to make a lahd, the lahd collapses. What should we do?
Answer:
He says that the bottom of the grave is soft, meaning it is like sand, so if we make a lahd (grave chamber) or a trench, it does not stand but collapses. What do we do? We say there is no harm in building it. It is built on the side of the grave as a place for the deceased, or a trench is dug in the bottom of the grave and its sides are built with bricks, then the deceased is placed in it and it is sealed. There is no objection to building inside the grave in this case because the soil does not hold together.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Your Eminence the Shaykh, in our village the cemetery ground is hard at the beginning of digging, but at the end it becomes soft. So when we dig and then want to make a lahd, the lahd collapses. What should we do?
Answer:
He says that the bottom of the grave is soft, meaning it is like sand, so if we make a lahd (grave chamber) or a trench, it does not stand but collapses. What do we do? We say there is no harm in building it. It is built on the side of the grave as a place for the deceased, or a trench is dug in the bottom of the grave and its sides are built with bricks, then the deceased is placed in it and it is sealed. There is no objection to building inside the grave in this case because the soil does not hold together.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/46 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (30:11)
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