Ruling on praying in a mosque next to a cemetery

Question:
This is a Yemeni resident in Riyadh. He says: We have a small, old mosque built on a small mound in an important location for the village. Immediately behind the mosque, in the direction of the qiblah, there is a fenced cemetery eight meters long and four meters wide. Is it permissible, O Shaykh, to pray in this mosque? Or is it better that we change this location?

Answer:
There is no harm; praying in it is permissible, as long as the cemetery is outside the mosque, and there is a barrier, a wall, between it and the mosque. The mosque has a wall outside the cemetery, so there is no harm. The point is that a mosque with a fenced and enclosed cemetery in front of it is not harmful, and praise be to Allah.
What is not permissible is for graves to be inside the mosque; that is the abomination. As for it being an external cemetery and the mosque being separated from it, that does not cause harm.

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