Ruling on performing the funeral prayer in a prayer area inside the wall of a cemetery.
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The questioner : What is the ruling on performing the funeral prayer in a prayer area inside the cemetery wall? I deliberately asked this question... The wall is built on land that was not previously a cemetery?
The Shaykh : We have investigated this issue recently, and the answer, in brief, is: if this prayer area cannot be moved or taken outside the cemetery wall, then at the very least, its walls must be raised so that the prayer area is completely separated from the cemetery, and so that the one standing there in congregational prayer does not see any of those graves. However, the fundamental solution is to move it outside. You know, and I have seen, that, what Allah willed, you have vast lands, and the houses of the least among you are spacious enough to accommodate many of our houses in our country, Syria. So, if it is possible—and it is possible—to allocate a piece of land next to the cemetery, outside the cemetery, and establish a prayer area for funerals, and then take the funeral to the cemetery by the nearest route, this is the fundamental solution to this matter.
Yes.
The Shaykh : We have investigated this issue recently, and the answer, in brief, is: if this prayer area cannot be moved or taken outside the cemetery wall, then at the very least, its walls must be raised so that the prayer area is completely separated from the cemetery, and so that the one standing there in congregational prayer does not see any of those graves. However, the fundamental solution is to move it outside. You know, and I have seen, that, what Allah willed, you have vast lands, and the houses of the least among you are spacious enough to accommodate many of our houses in our country, Syria. So, if it is possible—and it is possible—to allocate a piece of land next to the cemetery, outside the cemetery, and establish a prayer area for funerals, and then take the funeral to the cemetery by the nearest route, this is the fundamental solution to this matter.
Yes.
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