Ruling on placing numbers on cemetery walls to identify the owners of the graves
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Q: In some cemeteries, numbers are placed on the cemetery walls to identify the owners of the graves. What is the ruling on this?
A: Writing on graves is prohibited and not permissible; because of the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) feared for some of those who write on their graves. As for writing on the cemetery wall, nothing has reached me regarding it, and the most cautious course in my view is to leave it; because it has a shubhah (a doubtful matter) of writing on graves in some respects. And success is from Allah.
A: Writing on graves is prohibited and not permissible; because of the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) feared for some of those who write on their graves. As for writing on the cemetery wall, nothing has reached me regarding it, and the most cautious course in my view is to leave it; because it has a shubhah (a doubtful matter) of writing on graves in some respects. And success is from Allah.
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binbaz.org.sa
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