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Women visiting graves every Friday

salam i have read that it is permissiable to visit the grave and so i have been visiting my fathers grave every friday with my mom to say duaa and remember death but ive read its not good to go visit the graves alot im confused ? is every friday to much? ja zakum allah khair.. More

118565 2-3-2009
Excavating graves to study ancient civilizations

Salam alikom! Can you please tell me is it allowed in Islam to excavate graves in order to study ancient culture and to find some ancient things? Thanks... More

116135 16-12-2008
Prohibition of sitting on graves

Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu Narrated by Abu Hurairah(Radhiallah o anho): Allah's Messenger (sallAllaahu 'alaihi wasallam) said: It is better that one of you should sit on live coals which would burn his clothing and come in contact with his skin than that he should sit.. More

107129 17-4-2008
Who will be exempted from being squeezed in the grave?

Assalaam alaikum. pliz i would like to know if it is true that every human will be squeezed by land in the grave except the prophets. .. More

104989 20-2-2008
Putting palm branches on graves

Is it permissible to put palm branches over graves, following the example of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam (may Allaah exalt his mention)?.. More

12861 8-1-2008
It is permissible to bury dead men next to dead women when necessary

If it is necessary for a dead man to be buried in a grave next to dead women, will the torment or delight of all who are buried in that grave stop until they are separated and the man is buried in another grave?.. More

16944 11-11-2007
Burying more than one corpse in one grave

As salam alai kum, i need a advice ..my friends father died 16months ago and now last month his cousin sister died age 13years and burried her in the same grave of my friends father. Here they did not put the bones together ,it was scattered all over the grave. now he sees his father in dreams saying u hve destroyed my house and seen in pain. Please.. More

98949 11-9-2007
Building on a piece of land where there are two graves

We are about to start anew building on a peace of land but we have found two graves when we started digging the land, so I don’t know what I should do! There are a lot of buildings at the moment by our land. So could you please let me know what I should do? The land is in a Muslim country and there is no sign suggesting that the land was a cemetery.. More

96049 20-5-2007
Walking in the graveyard while wearing shoes

Assalamualaikum, Dear Sheikh, I have 2 questions for you: 1. I have seen in some fiqh books that one must remove his shoes when entering the graveyard. What the ruling concerning this matter? 2. Some people say that during prayer, if one closes his eyes for gaining concentration, this has no effect on the prayer. What the ruling concerning this matter?.. More

93793 19-3-2007
Visiting the graveyard on a daily basis

Is it ok to visit a grave daily to perform dua's for the deceased. .. More

92718 11-2-2007
Putting a sign on the grave

My question has several parts. Firstly is it permissible to place a thin piece of concrete, stone, or wood (level with the ground) at the head of the grave, so one knows where the grave is? The second part is whether it is permissible to write on the concrete, stone or wood who lies in the grave. If not, is it permissible to write whether the.. More

90624 9-10-2005
Burying corpses in a graveyard already filled

If a graveyard is full with bodies, then the next body is to be buried so the people go back to where the first body was put. Incase they find bones there, are they to be removed?.. More

90042 26-5-2005
Length of time for maintaining cemeteries

Is there a prescribed time period to keep cemeteries? I heard that after 100 years a cemetery should be switched to a different use (e.g. agriculture, housing,…). Is this true? .. More

89731 11-4-2005
Burial of Muslim in Muslim Section of Christian Cemetery

Yesterday a Muslim died and he was buried in Christian cemetery in a special area for the Muslims which is not far from the Christian area and which is in the cemetery and we have accomplish Salat Janaza there and I want to know if we were correct in this act? .. More

82856 13-10-2004
Removing the deceased from one grave site to another

Could we move our father's remains that were buried 6 years ago, and move it to some other graveyard? Reason of movement: We put our father's name plate on his grave, after few days we saw the name plate removed, asked the person in-charge of the graveyard, he told us that the people from whom we got that grave had come and removed the plate as.. More

88609 8-9-2004

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58 fatwas

Women visiting graves every Friday

Excavating graves to study ancient civilizations

Prohibition of sitting on graves

Who will be exempted from being squeezed in the grave?

Putting palm branches on graves

It is permissible to bury dead men next to dead women when necessary

Burying more than one corpse in one grave

Building on a piece of land where there are two graves

Walking in the graveyard while wearing shoes

Visiting the graveyard on a daily basis

Putting a sign on the grave

Burying corpses in a graveyard already filled

Length of time for maintaining cemeteries

Burial of Muslim in Muslim Section of Christian Cemetery

Removing the deceased from one grave site to another

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