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Fatwa ID: 05874<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed bin Mohamed Umarji<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I have recently secured planning permission to convert a small warehouse into two flats. There is a small piece of land outside the warehouse that I plan to use as a garden.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are currently 3 or 4 headstones within that land. I believe this land was used as a burial ground some 100 years ago. \u00a0I plan to remove the headstones and tidy up the land. My query is:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Is it ok to remove the headstones?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0s it ok to allow the land to be used as a garden since the burials happened so long ago?<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Is there anything else I should be aware of?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Headstones are categorized as permissible for the purpose of identification.1<\/sup><\/a> They are not items that hold no religious significance and are permissible to remove.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    2. Using the land as a garden will be permissible. As it is permitted to bury another person within the same grave, or even cultivate the land or build upon it after the body has decomposed<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n

    Written by Shaykh Ahmed bin Mohamed Umarji<\/span><\/p>\n

    Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n

    Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Radd al-Muhtar, Page 237, Volume 2, Dar al-Fikr Beirut 1992<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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