Placing images of graves and funerals in mosques to remind people of death

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: It has become widespread in many of the mosques in this country to have pictures, and among those pictures is one of a grave dug out in a cemetery with a funeral next to it. The intention behind placing these pictures is to remind the worshippers of death. Is there a basis for this practice in the pure Shari'ah?

Answer:
This practice must be prevented, and these papers or boards must be torn up. Nothing of this sort should be placed in the mosques. This is one of the erroneous independent legal reasoning (ijtihad) of some of the young people, which . People do not remember when they see this picture; the Qur'an reminds them. They do not remember through the funerals they see with their own eyes, which are not pictures of funerals that they carry and lift from their homes, their neighbors, or their children. It is not something that is magnified by a sheet of paper or a picture of a sheet, but this is futile waste. It is obligatory that nothing enter the mosques except the mushafs (written copies of the Qur'an). All these things must be prevented: the advertisements, the advertising boards, the da'wah (calling others to Islam), and whatever they say. All this rubbish is not suitable for the mosques. If the door is opened, the sorcerers and the foolish ones will come in and spread their advertisements and their innovations in the mosques.