The Refutation of Those Who Cite the Verse: "Said those who prevailed in their affair: We will surely take..." to Argue for the Permissibility of Building Mosques over Graves

Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is your opinion of the one who cites the saying of Allah the Exalted, , as evidence for the permissibility of building over mosques and graves, and that whoever does so owes nothing, and that it is not shirk (associating partners with Allah), and that his prayer is valid?

Answer:
This is a fallacy, may Allah protect us from it. Our Shaykh, Shaykh Muhammad al-Shanqiti, says in his tafsir: “No one has ever cited a verse to support his falsehood without the verse containing a refutation of him. This verse is an example of that: They overpowered them in their affair. The people of authority overpower; they do not submit to evidence; they proceed according to their own status. They did not build it based on evidence, but rather based on dominance and authority. This is a refutation of them. Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab cited this verse to argue for the invalidity of building over graves, the invalidity of building over graves, because they built it due to the dominance of their authority, not based on evidence or a command from Allah, the Exalted. Yes.