Transferring the deceased from Christian cemeteries to Muslim cemeteries
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The questioner:
My mother passed away in America and was buried in the Christian cemeteries there, because there was no Muslim cemetery at that time. Now I have purchased a Muslim cemetery. Should she be transferred from the Christian cemetery and placed in the Muslim cemetery?
The Shaykh:
Yes, yes. She should be exhumed, and whatever remains of her bones and traces should be transferred to the Muslim cemetery. If there is no cemetery, she should be exhumed and placed in a location far from the disbelievers, buried, and the earth leveled over it so that it is not found, so that the Christians and disbelievers do not come to it. It is not permissible to be buried with the disbelievers, ever. But if there is a Muslim cemetery, she is buried with the Muslims, exhumed from her previous place, and transferred. If there is no Muslim cemetery, she is placed in a location far from the roads, away from the roads, and buried there, and the place is leveled so that it is not found, or so that nothing grows there or anything is done to it. Yes.
The questioner:
Okay. Okay, Shaykh Abu Malik, a small non-Muslim child is here in Saudi Arabia. Is it permissible for him to enter these lands?
The Shaykh:
May Allah be remembered with you. Not in non-Muslim cemeteries, meaning the cemetery of Salih or Juddi or something like that. Do not remember Allah with them, far from the Muslim cemetery.
My mother passed away in America and was buried in the Christian cemeteries there, because there was no Muslim cemetery at that time. Now I have purchased a Muslim cemetery. Should she be transferred from the Christian cemetery and placed in the Muslim cemetery?
The Shaykh:
Yes, yes. She should be exhumed, and whatever remains of her bones and traces should be transferred to the Muslim cemetery. If there is no cemetery, she should be exhumed and placed in a location far from the disbelievers, buried, and the earth leveled over it so that it is not found, so that the Christians and disbelievers do not come to it. It is not permissible to be buried with the disbelievers, ever. But if there is a Muslim cemetery, she is buried with the Muslims, exhumed from her previous place, and transferred. If there is no Muslim cemetery, she is placed in a location far from the roads, away from the roads, and buried there, and the place is leveled so that it is not found, or so that nothing grows there or anything is done to it. Yes.
The questioner:
Okay. Okay, Shaykh Abu Malik, a small non-Muslim child is here in Saudi Arabia. Is it permissible for him to enter these lands?
The Shaykh:
May Allah be remembered with you. Not in non-Muslim cemeteries, meaning the cemetery of Salih or Juddi or something like that. Do not remember Allah with them, far from the Muslim cemetery.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 50 — archive.org (48:17)
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