Ruling on digging up a cemetery to make a road
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Is it permissible to dig up graves for the sake of a public road, such as when the road cannot be made except through the cemetery? Is it permissible to dig them up and move them to a second cemetery for the sake of the public interest?
Digging up graves out of dire necessity for a road: some scholars of the Permanent Committee in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia issued a ruling that it is permissible, on the condition that: the road cannot be diverted from the direction of the cemetery. In that case, the graves are dug up, the bones are taken, and they are placed in a cemetery.
Digging up graves out of dire necessity for a road: some scholars of the Permanent Committee in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia issued a ruling that it is permissible, on the condition that: the road cannot be diverted from the direction of the cemetery. In that case, the graves are dug up, the bones are taken, and they are placed in a cemetery.