If a person is certain that he will not tread on graves, is it possible for him not to remove his sandals?

Al-'Uwaishah: Our Shaykh, if a person is certain that he will not tread on graves, is it possible for him not to remove his sandals?

The Shaykh : No, because he walks between the graves, and certainty is not something that can be guaranteed except if one takes a path as a base. As for the specific situation as it is observed today, where they are not intermingled with one another, it is not possible except that he removes his sandals. Yes.
Al-'Uwaishah: Theoretically, meaning he does not remove them.

The Shaykh : How? How do you say that?
Al-'Uwaishah: I mean, theoretically, there is hope. The action had a difference between...

The Shaykh : I brought you an example. This is theoretical. There is an example other than the second example. For instance, in the graves of the Companions, is there a path?
Al-'Uwaishah: There is a path.

The Shaykh : It is paved, approximately prepared for walking on. But now, reverse the path like this, and there are graves facing the qiblah. Is it permissible to walk between the graves like this? Is it possible?

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : It is not possible.

The questioner : You walk and do not tread on them.

The Shaykh : No, because you cannot say, "This is the hole," and here will be the grave niche. The grave niche is here. You will walk from here. But if it were a trench, your statement would be correct.

The questioner : O Shaykh, we are talking about the example you gave in Sahab. All of Sahab is a trench.

The Shaykh : It is not permissible for me to speak now. For example, did you bury your father and make a grave niche for him, or not?

The questioner : A trench.

The Shaykh : Why not a grave niche?

The questioner : We were not able to, because if we made a grave niche, we would encroach on our neighbor.

The Shaykh : I do not think this conversation is useful, my brother. Since you say that there is a distance between the graves, how, if we dig, for example, a width of fifty centimeters, do we say how we will reach there? Fifty centimeters between the grave and the grave?

The questioner : At least, O Shaykh, there is.

The Shaykh : How is it weaker?

The questioner : Meaning there are... twenty centimeters, twenty between the grave and the grave, because there is cut brick in situations... there is brick and there is cement.

The Shaykh : I need to understand this thing, that this trench and the cement is here.

The questioner : Yes, exactly.

The Shaykh : And here is another trench, and the cement is here.

The questioner : Yes, exactly.

The Shaykh : How much is between here and here?

The questioner : Some of them do not have it. I have seen graves where there is nothing between them.

The Shaykh : Meaning, on top of each other.

The Shaykh : Yes, on top of each other. Some of the blocks are next to the block.

The questioner : I saw it in the Islamic cemetery in the districts, and I saw it in Sahab.

The Shaykh : If it is not possible, walking on the path in Sahab.

The questioner : There is no room for it.

The Shaykh : It is not possible to walk, because the image I imagined is different from the one you visualized. There are, for example, old graves, and you say, for example, we have what is called those from before the railway.

The questioner : The cemetery of the Racing Club.

The Shaykh : You find passages between the graves completely, because this is a new method they followed in Sahab. And therefore I say, if we assume there is a path like this extending from north to south between graves, then it is permissible to walk in it, because at least, by the preponderance of probability, you will not tread on a grave. But if you want to walk like this, crossing, you cannot guarantee that you did not tread on a grave. As for the issue of Sahab now, according to what you visualize, either it is very narrow, or it is a block next to a block.