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Is it permissible to build above an old cemetery for commercial investment purposes to benefit a mosque, given the availability of an alternative cemetery and a deficit in the mosque's revenues?

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It is not permissible to exhume graves except out of a necessity sanctioned by Islamic law, and it is permissible especially if the remains are decayed.

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