What is the ruling on studying in a school that was built on the ruins of a graveyard, and the bones of the dead have appeared therein?
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It is impermissible to build a school, or to sit or walk over a cemetery as long as the bones of the deceased have not decayed and turned to dust, due to the prohibition against sitting on graves and praying towards them.
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