Removing inscriptions and additions from graves at night
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is it permissible for me to enter the cemetery at night and remove the inscriptions and the additions and innovations on them? Because he says that state has not removed these matters?
Answer:
It is not permissible for you to do this except by the one in authority. As for you, if you remove them, they will restore them anew or make them better. No one removes evil by hand except the one in authority. As for you, explain it to them. From Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is it permissible for me to enter the cemetery at night and remove the inscriptions and the additions and innovations on them? Because he says that state has not removed these matters?
Answer:
It is not permissible for you to do this except by the one in authority. As for you, if you remove them, they will restore them anew or make them better. No one removes evil by hand except the one in authority. As for you, explain it to them. From
If one of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; this is the one in authority. If he cannot, then with his tongue; this is the one who has no authority. If he cannot, then with his heart,
رأى منكم منكرا فليغيره بيده هذا صاحب السلطة، فإن لم يستطع فبلسانه، هذا الذي ليس له سلطة، فإن لم يستطع فبقلبه،
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شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ثم إن في اتخاذ القبور أعيادًا من المفاسد العظيمة ... — islamhouse.com (53:25)
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