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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Lawfulness of Entering the Cemetery and Greeting Its Inhabitants

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Question:
Your Eminence, regarding greeting the dead, is it prescribed to greet them inside the cemetery, or to pass by in a car, for example?

Answer:
If he enters, that is better; because he stands over them and greets them; as it is closer to humility and being moved. If he passes by them in a car and greets them, or on his mount and greets them, or stops at the wall and greets them, that suffices. But his intending the graves, entering to them, greeting them, and making du'a for them, this is more complete and stronger in being moved.
Source binbaz.org.sa

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