What is the validity of the claim that the reason prayer is not permissible in a cemetery is the possibility that the ground of the cemetery is not ritually pure?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: I heard some of them justify the impermissibility of praying in a cemetery by saying that there may be ritual impurity in it from traces.
Answer:
That is a weak and invalid justification; it is not correct. The cemetery has been exposed to the sun and floods for years, and they say it is impure? It is not impure. The reason is that this is one of the means of shirk (associating partners with Allah), namely praying at the graves. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: I heard some of them justify the impermissibility of praying in a cemetery by saying that there may be ritual impurity in it from traces.
Answer:
That is a weak and invalid justification; it is not correct. The cemetery has been exposed to the sun and floods for years, and they say it is impure? It is not impure. The reason is that this is one of the means of shirk (associating partners with Allah), namely praying at the graves. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [501 -3022] ما صحة القول إن علة عدم جواز الصلاة في المقبرة هو احتمالية عدم طهارة أرض المقبرة؟ — youtube.com
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