Rules Concerning Graveyards: Opening a Pedestrian Walkway Through a Cemetery and Removing Graves

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Rules Concerning Graveyards: Opening a Pedestrian Walkway Through a Cemetery and Removing Graves

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Question #2096:

Is it permissible to open up a walkway for pedestrians through the cemetery where it could lead to removing a number of twenty-year-old graves?

Answer #2096:

There is no objection to building a pathway through the graves provided that the ceremony is not an endowment, and this would lead neither to exhuming the dead bodies of Muslims, nor desecrating the graves.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Rules Concerning Graveyards