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Placing Benches in the Graveyard

Q: Janaa'iz-96: Some people in our locality intend placing benches in the graveyard so that old people may sit down to rest and recite somethirrg when they visit the graveyard. What is the ruling?

Answer: Although the intention to save old pcople inconvenience. but this will gradually lead to evil. There will be those negligent people who will misuse the privilege and use the graveyard as a recreation park. They will then sit around and engage in futile conversation, thereby defeating the objective of visiting the graveyard. The graveyard should therefore be kept as simple as possible and should the old people fed any difficulty, they may sit on the ground. And Allaah knows best what is most correct.

Fatawa Rahimiyyah vol.3