Is it permissible to complete the renovation of a garden inside a cemetery?
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The questioner : A brother from Algeria called me yesterday asking, saying that he is one of the heads of the municipalities who...
The Shaykh : ...succeeded.
The questioner : ...who succeeded in a previous municipality. The same municipality where he was sitting had a cemetery. So this cemetery, by virtue of the fact that he took over, he wants to complete the thing that the previous municipality had completed, which they had started. They had built a garden on top of this cemetery, and it has been about fifteen years since the cemetery, meaning...
The Shaykh : ...meaning the cemetery has been there for fifteen years.
The questioner : ...it has been there, yes. He says, is it permissible for me now to complete this work that I started, or is it not permissible?
The Shaykh : This is among the harms of employment under the rule of the disbeliever.
Al-Halabi : Glory be to Allah.
The Shaykh : And how can the shadow be straight while the stick is crooked? The Muslims, glory be to Allah, have a very short-sighted view. None of them looks beyond the tip of his nose. That is it. We want to seize power. Seizing power, what is its method? You become an employee and you want to rule by Islam, but the highest center is controlling it with other than Islam. You cannot rule by Islam. If he wanted to do the work of the Muslims, he would demolish the garden and fence it off as a cemetery and keep it as it was for the Muslims, for the dead of the Muslims, not for the living to take a walk in it at the expense of the dead. They made you weak and they described you as...
The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And prayers and peace be upon the noblest of the messengers.
The Shaykh : ...succeeded.
The questioner : ...who succeeded in a previous municipality. The same municipality where he was sitting had a cemetery. So this cemetery, by virtue of the fact that he took over, he wants to complete the thing that the previous municipality had completed, which they had started. They had built a garden on top of this cemetery, and it has been about fifteen years since the cemetery, meaning...
The Shaykh : ...meaning the cemetery has been there for fifteen years.
The questioner : ...it has been there, yes. He says, is it permissible for me now to complete this work that I started, or is it not permissible?
The Shaykh : This is among the harms of employment under the rule of the disbeliever.
Al-Halabi : Glory be to Allah.
The Shaykh : And how can the shadow be straight while the stick is crooked? The Muslims, glory be to Allah, have a very short-sighted view. None of them looks beyond the tip of his nose. That is it. We want to seize power. Seizing power, what is its method? You become an employee and you want to rule by Islam, but the highest center is controlling it with other than Islam. You cannot rule by Islam. If he wanted to do the work of the Muslims, he would demolish the garden and fence it off as a cemetery and keep it as it was for the Muslims, for the dead of the Muslims, not for the living to take a walk in it at the expense of the dead. They made you weak and they described you as...
The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And prayers and peace be upon the noblest of the messengers.
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