Urging the Removal of Innovations from Mosques
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Question:
He says: I hope you will direct the Muslims so that they clear their mosques of innovations; because I have read that many mosques are not free from innovations?
Answer:
It is obligatory for Muslims to purify their mosques from everything that Allah has forbidden, whether innovations or sins. Among the innovations are building mosques over graves, burying the dead in the mosque, and placing a stone to prostrate upon, as some of the Shi'ah do by prostrating upon it. Also, vocalizing the intention by saying, "I intend to pray such and such," is among the innovations from which mosques must be kept pure. It is not permissible to pray in a cemetery, nor in a mosque built over a grave. Rather, it must be demolished because it is an evil, an innovation, and a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah).
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
He says: I hope you will direct the Muslims so that they clear their mosques of innovations; because I have read that many mosques are not free from innovations?
Answer:
It is obligatory for Muslims to purify their mosques from everything that Allah has forbidden, whether innovations or sins. Among the innovations are building mosques over graves, burying the dead in the mosque, and placing a stone to prostrate upon, as some of the Shi'ah do by prostrating upon it. Also, vocalizing the intention by saying, "I intend to pray such and such," is among the innovations from which mosques must be kept pure. It is not permissible to pray in a cemetery, nor in a mosque built over a grave. Rather, it must be demolished because it is an evil, an innovation, and a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah).
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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