Graves
Shaikh
Mohammed Ibn Ibraheem was asked the following
question:
Are women allowed to visit the grave of the
prophet Mohammed (PBUH) or they must be prohibited
from doing so on the basis of the saying of the
prophet (PBUH) which says, “Allah curses the
ladies who visit graves”?
Answer:
The right
thing is to prohibit them from visiting graves for
two reasons: firstly, because of general evidences
which support prohibition.
If prohibition is general then it is not
permitted to create particular permissible
situations unless there is an evidence.
Here in this case the proof is manifest and
regarding the grave of the prophet (PBUH), the
prophet himself prohibited people from making his
grave an object of worship.
He says, “O Allah, don’t make my grave
like an idol worshiped”
Allah accepted his call and protected his
grave and its soil by establishing a situation
that forbids ignorance from doing so.
Secondly, he was buried in the cite was
circled and closed and its gate is closed and
walls as well as iron webs were added to protect
the cite of the grave.
All these measures were made so that the
weak-faiths people would not do something which
the prophet himself ordered to eliminate them.
It is not ordered to visit the grave of the
prophet (PBUH) his companions did not do so after
his death and throughout their life.
Ibn Omer was following Sunna, and was not
visiting the grave except when he wants to travel
or returned from travel.
While in the city he used to surface by
making prayers in Masjid.
Therefore, it would be better not allow
women to visit graves.
Permanent
Committee of Decree was asked the following
question:
Is the woman who is menstruating permitted
to bath the dead woman and enshroud her?
Answer:
Yes
it is permitted for a menstruating woman to bath
the body of a dead woman and enshroud it, and a
woman can bath the body of her husband only,
however, menstruating does not prevent a woman
from washing the body of a dead woman and cover
her.
Shaikh
Mohammed Bin Salih El-Otheimeen was asked the
following question:
What
is your opinion about a person who puts two stones
on the graves of a man and only one stone on the
graves of a woman.
Does this discrimination on the basis of
sex permitted?
Answer:
This
discrimination is not permitted, scholars advised
to put a stone or two on the grave of a male or a
female just as a sign of the grave so that it
would not be dug again.
But to discriminate, in this regard,
between man and women is baseless.
Shaikh
Mohammed Ibn Ibraheem was asked the following
question:
Is it permitted that a foreign (who is not
Mihram) man puts a woman in the grave and untie
the knots the of the shroud which covers her?
Answer:
It is permitted
that a man who is not Mihram (a foreign) can
enters the dead body of a woman into the grave and
untie the knots of her cover even if a Mihram was
present.
The
Permanent Committee of Decree was asked the
following question:
Some
scholar in the radio-broad casting read the saying
of the prophet (PBUH) which says, “Allah curses
the women who visit graves” and again another
Hadith which says, “I had prohibited you from
inciting graves but visit them because they remind
you of the judgment” so I am perplexed which one
to follow and how can I harmonize between these
two sayings?
Answer:
Women are
not permitted to visit graves and the second
saying (I had prohibited you…) does not cancel
the essence of the meaning of (Allah curses….)
due to the generality of the Hadith (I had
prohibited…) whereas (Allah curses…) is
dealing with women in particular.
Therefore, the meaning of both sayings can
be harmonized and men can visit graves as they may
remember judgment day but woman are not permitted
to do so and this is according to what scholars in
general say.
Shaikh
Mohammed Bin Salih El-Otheimeen was asked the
following question:
Why a woman is covered which being entered
into the grave and for how long she must remained
covered?
Answer:
Religious
scholars a woman may be covered so that not trace
of her body appears, but it is no a must and the
covering last till the milk is scattered on it.
The
permanent Committee of Decree was asked the
following question:
My
mother says that her daughter and she was buried
in the area where only men are buried. Is it permissible to bury a woman among buried men?
Or should we transfer her?
Answer:
It is
permissible to bury a woman among men’s grave
and vice versa, but every one should have his own
separate grave.
Shaikh
Salih El Fozan was asked the following question:
Is
it permissible that a man washes the dead body of
a woman?
Answer:
The body
of a dead woman must be washed and wrapped-up by
women only and not allowed doing so. Only the husband can wash the body of his wife and vice
versa. In
the history of Islam, Ali Ibn Abee Talib (PBUH)
washed the body of Fatima (PBUH), when she died.
Asmaa Bint Imais also washed the body of Abu-Baker
Alsidiq (PBUH) when he died.
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