The ruling on women visiting graves, and the meaning of: {UNTIL YOU VISIT THE GRAVES}
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The question: He asks a second time and says: If women go out to visit graves with a mahram, is there any issue with this? And does the saying of Allah ﷻ [At-Takathur:2] from Surat At-Takathur restrict visiting to men only, excluding women? Please inform us, may Allah reward you?
The answer: Visiting is restricted to men, and the Messenger ﷺ prohibited women from visiting graves and following funeral processions, and it is authentic from him (peace and blessings be upon him), so it is not permissible for a woman to visit graves or to follow funeral processions to the cemetery. Yes, she may pray for the deceased with the people in the mosque, in the prayer area, or in the house; there is no harm in praying for the deceased. However, visiting the graves or going with people to the cemetery is not permissible for her. This is the correct opinion among the scholars.
As for His saying ﷻ: UNTIL YOU VISIT THE GRAVES [At-Takathur:1-2], the intended meaning is death, meaning: until you are transferred to the graves as dead. The intended meaning is not the known visiting. The purpose is to warn people against being preoccupied with competition in numbers until they die; so He called it a visit because a person does not reside in the grave permanently; it is a visit, and then he exits on the Day of Resurrection to Paradise or to the Fire.
So the graves are not ... the final abode, but the final abode is Paradise or the Fire. So the dead visited the graves and remained in the graves until the resurrection and rising. When the Day of Resurrection comes, they are brought out of their graves, and Allah holds them accountable and rewards them for their deeds. So the righteous are for Paradise and honor, and the disbelievers are for the Fire, and the sinners are in danger; they may be pardoned and enter Paradise, or they may be punished according to the measure of their sins. Then, after the punishment and the torment they deserve, Allah takes them out of the Fire into Paradise, according to the people of the Sunnah and the community.
So the conclusion is that His saying, the Exalted: UNTIL YOU VISIT THE GRAVES [At-Takathur:1-2], the intended meaning is not the known visiting. The intended meaning here is death, meaning: your competition in this world and your striving for it distracted you until you died and were transferred to the graves. Allah called it a visit because they do not reside in the graves permanently, but they are visitors, and they will exit the graves on the Day of Resurrection to Paradise or the Fire, as indicated by the noble verses and authentic hadiths. As He, Glorious and Exalted, said in His great Book: [At-Taghabun:7] So Allah gathers the people on the Day of Resurrection and resurrects them from their graves, then He rewards them for their deeds: if good, then good; and if evil, then evil.
So it is obligatory for every Muslim man and every Muslim woman to prepare for this day, and to strive for righteous deeds so that he or she may be happy and attain salvation on the Day of Resurrection. This is the duty of every person, every person of legal age from the people of the earth. It is obligatory for all persons of legal age, Arabs and non-Arabs, jinn and humans, disbelievers and Muslims. It is obligatory for them to prepare for this day, and to enter into Islam, and to be upright upon Islam so that they may attain salvation on the Day of Resurrection. Allah is the One to be sought for help. Yes.
Until you visit the graveyards
حَتَّى زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَThe answer: Visiting is restricted to men, and the Messenger ﷺ prohibited women from visiting graves and following funeral processions, and it is authentic from him (peace and blessings be upon him)
He cursed the women who visit graves
أنه لعن زائرات القبورAs for His saying ﷻ:
Competition in [worldly things] has distracted you
أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ So the graves are not ... the final abode, but the final abode is Paradise or the Fire. So the dead visited the graves and remained in the graves until the resurrection and rising. When the Day of Resurrection comes, they are brought out of their graves, and Allah holds them accountable and rewards them for their deeds. So the righteous are for Paradise and honor, and the disbelievers are for the Fire, and the sinners are in danger; they may be pardoned and enter Paradise, or they may be punished according to the measure of their sins. Then, after the punishment and the torment they deserve, Allah takes them out of the Fire into Paradise, according to the people of the Sunnah and the community.
So the conclusion is that His saying, the Exalted:
Competition in [worldly things] has distracted you
أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ Those who disbelieve have claimed that they will never be resurrected. Say, "Yes, by my Lord, you will surely be resurrected; then you will surely be informed of what you did. And that, for Allah, is easy."
زَعَمَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنْ لَنْ يُبْعَثُوا قُلْ بَلَى وَرَبِّي لَتُبْعَثُنَّ ثُمَّ لَتُنَبَّؤُنَّ بِمَا عَمِلْتُمْ وَذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌSo it is obligatory for every Muslim man and every Muslim woman to prepare for this day, and to strive for righteous deeds so that he or she may be happy and attain salvation on the Day of Resurrection. This is the duty of every person, every person of legal age from the people of the earth. It is obligatory for all persons of legal age, Arabs and non-Arabs, jinn and humans, disbelievers and Muslims. It is obligatory for them to prepare for this day, and to enter into Islam, and to be upright upon Islam so that they may attain salvation on the Day of Resurrection. Allah is the One to be sought for help. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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