Visiting Graves
213 questions
What is the ruling on visiting the graves of the deceased, sitting by them, conversing with them, circumambulating them, or taking their soil?
Is intense fear of death and the grave, and feeling distressed by life after experiencing a grandmother's death throes, considered evidence of weak faith?
Is visiting graves, staying overnight there, and sacrificing offerings there—claiming that the sacrifice is for oneself and not for the deceased—acceptable in Islamic law, and is traveling for such visits permissible?
What is the ruling on visiting graves in general, and visiting the grave of Sayyida Zaynab specifically with the intention of maintaining kinship ties, without any intention of seeking intercession (tawassul), blessings (tabarruk), or innovation (bid‘ah)? Do the Family of the Prophet (Ahl al-Bayt) have the power to intercede with Allah, and did Sayyida Zaynab die as a martyr?
What is the ruling on women visiting graves, and what is the ruling on printing some surahs of the Holy Quran (Yasin, Al-Waqi'ah, Ar-Rahman...) and distributing them as a perpetual charity for the soul of the deceased?
What is the ruling on the phenomena of "disuniting the group" (فك الوحدة) and "the ختمة" after a person's death, and are they considered innovations (bid‘ah)?
What is the ruling on deputyship (at-tawliyah) in Sharia, and what is its modality? Does the deputy have the right to dispose of everything that comes to the shrine? What is the manner of disposal? Is it permissible for him to sell carpets, mats, oil, or candles, or to dispose of them? What is the ruling on vowed money (an-nuqud al-mandhurah) and to whom should it be disbursed? Is it permissible for unveiled, semi-naked women to visit the shrine? Is it permissible for menstruating and post-partum women to visit the shrine?
Is visiting the pyramids considered visiting graves, which is forbidden for women? And does the prohibition of women visiting graves apply only to annual visits, or does it also include visiting a grave once, such as the grave of a father or mother?
Is there any truth to the video clip that shows the moment a human soul is extracted using rays, where the human body cools down after the soul is extracted?
What is the ruling on visiting shrines such as those of Sayyida Zaynab and al-Husayn, and is it forbidden to supplicate through them and to say in one's prayers: "O Allah, by the right of our Master Muhammad and the People of his Household, and by the right of Sayyida Zaynab, and by the secret of al-Fatihah"?
What is the ruling on photographing empty graves and hanging their pictures in the home? Is this permissible, reprehensible, commendable, or forbidden?
Is someone who quarrels with his father considered disobedient? What is the best deed he can offer to his deceased father who used to pray in his house and isolate himself from people? And do seeing the father in a dream in good health, or visiting his grave and reciting the Qur’an and supplicating for him, or reciting the Qur’an and performing two rak’ahs of prayer for him after Isha, reach him?
Has it been authentically reported that Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) visited the grave of Hamza (may Allah be pleased with him) and prayed there?
What is the ruling on a woman standing outside the graveyard to greet her deceased father, and what is the ruling on women visiting graves, and does crying invalidate the fast?
What is the ruling on pondering at military heroes' memorial stones?
Is what the questioner does—visiting graves, touching them, remembering their occupants, reciting Al-Fatiha for them, supplicating to Allah that they intercede on his behalf, and supplicating to Allah to make the martyrs intercede on his behalf—permissible in Islamic law?
Must a woman wear trousers under the jilbab when visiting graves because the deceased can see her?
Is it permissible to visit graves while fasting?
How can a Muslim constantly remind himself of death and the terrors of the grave?
What is a Muslim's duty towards the Household of the Prophet (Ahl al-Bayt), Sayyiduna Ali, and Sayyiduna Husayn, based on hadiths such as: "My Household and I are like Noah's Ark: whoever embarks upon it is saved, and whoever lags behind it is perished," and "Whoever loves Husayn, I love him; and whoever I love, Allah loves him," and "Adhere to the love of the Household of the Prophet," and "I am the master of all beings, and Ali is the master of the Arabs"? And do visiting their graves and reciting Al-Fatiha for them constitute a gift and a bond of affection between us and them?
What is the ruling on dedicating a day to visit the son's grave?
What is the ruling on visiting shrines for the purpose of prosecuting jinn there?
Is it permissible for women to visit graves on the first day of Eid?
Is the priority in inviting the people of areas where visiting graves and domes is prevalent exclusively for Tawhid (monotheism), or for Tawhid along with the rest of the matters of religion such as prayer? And what about those who do not commit polytheistic acts but commit some sins?