What is the ruling on praying in a mosque that contains a grave, or in its courtyard where there is a grave?

The questioner : What is the ruling on praying in a mosque that has a grave in the outer courtyard?

The Shaykh : If the courtyard is part of the mosque, and one enters the mosque courtyard through the door, then it is within the sacred precinct of the mosque. So whether the grave is in the courtyard or in the sacred precinct itself, in both cases it is in the mosque. The hadiths that came regarding the prohibition of taking graves as mosques and building mosques over graves, all these texts include the mosque that has a grave, whether it is inside the sacred precinct or outside the sacred precinct. So it is not permissible. Yes, do you have something? Please go ahead.


The questioner : Some of the young men, who used to belong to one of the groups called the takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever) group, married without a contract, and now he married her without a guardian.

The Shaykh : Strange.

The questioner : And now he is following what he was doing before, so he asks what is the ruling on the second marital life, does repentance negate what came before it, or...

The Shaykh : Why did he marry her without a guardian? Perhaps he believed the guardian was a disbeliever.

The questioner : Yes. Allahu Akbar.
With some of the students laughing, may Allah preserve them.

The questioner : And he had children.

The Shaykh : There is no difference whether there are children or not; either this marriage is permissible or it is not permissible; La ilaha illa Allah...