Funeral directors prevent the digging of new graves beside some existing ones. Is there a shar‘ī reason for…

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Funeral directors prevent the digging of new graves beside some existing ones. Is there a shar‘ī reason for that? Are they justified in what they are doing?

Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei · Accepted Answer

No one has the right to reserve land around the graves of their relatives and, thus, prevent the believers from burying their dead in the public cemetery provided that the latter is held in trust or made available for the public to bury their dead.

Funeral directors prevent the digging of new graves beside some existing ones. Is there a shar‘ī reason for…

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