Placing boards with guidelines and directions in the cemetery

Q 9: What is the ruling on placing boards with guidelines and directions in the cemetery for visitors and those holding funerals? Basically, these boards are for the description of performing funeral prayer and for warning against some (Part No. 7; Page No. 372) Bid`ah (heresy in religion) and the like. Please give us a Fatwa on this matter may Allah reward you!


A 9: What is lawful is to teach people during sermons, religious lessons and other permissible means the rulings concerning the etiquettes of visiting graveyards. As for writing these instructions on boards and hanging them in cemeteries, this was not from among the practices of the Salaf (righteous predecessors). So, you are not to do it.May Allah grant you success! May Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions!

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