Purity: Is It Permissible to Demolish Graveyard Structures and Relocate Human Remains?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Purity: Is It Permissible to Demolish Graveyard Structures and Relocate Human Remains?
English:
Question #258:
The municipal authorities intend to demolish the chambers surrounding a graveyard for widening the lanes. Is it permissible? And is it permissible to exhume the bones of the dead and bury them elsewhere?
Answer #258:
The demolition and exhumation of the graves of the believers are not permissible even for the purpose of widening the lanes. In the case where exhumation occurs and a Muslim’s corpse or his bones that had not yet decomposed are uncovered, it is obligatory to bury them again.