The Legal Criterion for Visiting Graves
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Question:
His other question, may Allah protect you, is: What is the legal criterion for visiting graves?
Answer:
The legal criterion is that the visit be the prescribed visit, the purpose of which is to take a lesson, to be admonished, to make du'a' (supplication) for the dead, and to greet them. This is the prescribed visit, in which there is reward and benefit for the living and benefit for the believer. As for the visit intended to seek blessing from the graves, or to ask the buried ones or the dead for one's needs, on the pretext that they are among the awliya (close friends of Allah) and the righteous, this is shirk (associating partners with Allah); this is a visit of shirk, and may Allah protect us from it; it is an innovative act of shirk. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
His other question, may Allah protect you, is: What is the legal criterion for visiting graves?
Answer:
The legal criterion is that the visit be the prescribed visit, the purpose of which is to take a lesson, to be admonished, to make du'a' (supplication) for the dead, and to greet them. This is the prescribed visit, in which there is reward and benefit for the living and benefit for the believer. As for the visit intended to seek blessing from the graves, or to ask the buried ones or the dead for one's needs, on the pretext that they are among the awliya (close friends of Allah) and the righteous, this is shirk (associating partners with Allah); this is a visit of shirk, and may Allah protect us from it; it is an innovative act of shirk. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/262 — archive.org (7:53)
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