What is the answer to the one who attributes the prohibition of praying in the cemetery to the possibility of the ground being impure?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. What about the one who attributes the prohibition of praying in the cemetery to the fact that it is due to the possibility of the ground being impure as a result of the decomposition of the deceased's parts? Is his attribution correct?
Answer:
This attribution is invalid. The one who wants to escape from the means of shirk (associating partners with Allah) says there is no obstacle to praying at the grave, and they contradict the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the prohibition of taking graves as mosques. They want to escape from this, so they say the prohibition of that is out of fear of impurity. Well, where is the impurity? There is no impurity, and the deceased is in the belly of the earth, and nothing has come out of him. This is a cold and invalid attribution. The cause is cutting off the means of shirk. This is the cause.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. What about the one who attributes the prohibition of praying in the cemetery to the fact that it is due to the possibility of the ground being impure as a result of the decomposition of the deceased's parts? Is his attribution correct?
Answer:
This attribution is invalid. The one who wants to escape from the means of shirk (associating partners with Allah) says there is no obstacle to praying at the grave, and they contradict the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the prohibition of taking graves as mosques. They want to escape from this, so they say the prohibition of that is out of fear of impurity. Well, where is the impurity? There is no impurity, and the deceased is in the belly of the earth, and nothing has come out of him. This is a cold and invalid attribution. The cause is cutting off the means of shirk. This is the cause.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [182 -2802] ما الجواب على من علل النهي عن الصلاة في المقبرة لاحتمال نجاسة الأرض؟ -الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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