—Syria and elsewhere—are rarely without one grave, or even several, inside them, as though Allah, Blessed and Exalted, had commanded this practice and had not cursed the one who does it! How praiseworthy it would be for the Ministry of Religious Endowments, through its wisdom, to strive to purge these mosques of such graves. Yet I am certain that it would be unwise to spring this matter on public opinion without preparation; first and foremost, the public must be informed that in Islam a grave and a mosque cannot coexist, as some eminent scholars—whose words will be cited shortly—have declared, and that uniting the two undermines the sincerity of monotheism and worship that is due solely to Allah, Blessed and Exalted. It is for the sake of that very sincerity that mosques are erected, as He, the Most High, says: “And that the mosques are for Allah, so do not invoke anyone alongside Allah.” (1)

I am convinced that explaining this is an unavoidable duty, and I hope to have been granted success in doing so in this treatise. In it I have gathered the mutawātir hadiths that forbid the practice, followed by the positions and authoritative statements of the scholars which bear witness to the same.