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Is it permissible to pay money for the care of my mother's grave, which has become covered in a lot of dust and small trees, and is surrounded by iron bars with her name and date of birth written on it?

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Lawful maintenance of a grave involves several things: placing a marker at the head, raising the grave about a handspan, and enclosing the graveyard with a fence to protect it. Unlawful maintenance, however, includes: raising the grave more than a handspan, building over graves, painting and plastering graves, enclosing a grave with its own private fence, writing on graves, and planting trees and plants on them. Lawful maintenance does not require spending large sums of money, while dust on a grave is not considered a desecration of it.

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