Prohibition of Plastering and Building over the Graves

Closely linked to the chapter before it, this one records the prohibition of plastering graves into permanent structures, sitting on them, or building over them. It guards both the simplicity of how Muslims bury their dead and the sincerity of how they relate to them.

Underlying the guidance is a concern for humility and pure devotion: that graves not become grand monuments or places that draw veneration away from Allah alone. The broad spiritual point is what concerns us here; the particulars of practice are matters for the scholars.