The ruling on praying in a mosque next to a cemetery
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Question:
This questioner, Abu Walid from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, says: May Allah preserve you. We have a cemetery in our village in the south of the Kingdom, but this cemetery is next to a mosque, separated only by a single wall. Is it permissible to pray in this mosque?
Answer:
If the cemetery is connected to the mosque, with nothing between them but a wall, this is not permissible. A mosque built over a cemetery is not permissible, because this is a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah), and it resembles the mosques built over graves. However, if the cemetery is separated from the mosque by a road or by open land, completely separated from the mosque by a road where people pass with their cars, or by open land, then there is no harm in that, and this cemetery has no connection to the mosque.
This questioner, Abu Walid from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, says: May Allah preserve you. We have a cemetery in our village in the south of the Kingdom, but this cemetery is next to a mosque, separated only by a single wall. Is it permissible to pray in this mosque?
Answer:
If the cemetery is connected to the mosque, with nothing between them but a wall, this is not permissible. A mosque built over a cemetery is not permissible, because this is a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah), and it resembles the mosques built over graves. However, if the cemetery is separated from the mosque by a road or by open land, completely separated from the mosque by a road where people pass with their cars, or by open land, then there is no harm in that, and this cemetery has no connection to the mosque.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/262 — archive.org (7:09)
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