… if women are in full pardah, fully covered and dont cry or shout, may they then be allowed to visit the graves of her parents, grandparents - husband and her own siblings?
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I haven't seen sunnis (or even shias) in Pakistan allow it.
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shias do it BV.
i think among shias there is some sorta rule against women going to graveyards when they are menstruating.... thats it.
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On this fiqhi issue, there is a difference of opinion among the Hanafi scholars, but in the Hanafi and Shafi’i madhabs, women are allowed to visit the graves and the Maqams of the Awliya Allah. Strict conditions may also apply.
Many maqams of Awliya Allah do not allow women, such as the maqam of Syedina Miya Mir raziAllahu anhu in Lahore. This is because the Maqam is under the jurisdiction of Sunni Scholars who take the rulings of Syedina Imam Ahmad raDa Khan raziAllahu anhu in this regard.
Thaqib
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no, women r not allowed to visit graveyards....
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Shias allow it big time…
Sunnis do it, although influence is changing that…
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Interesting. Over here, women have attended Muslim funerals, myself included, although we are asked to stand far back during the actual burial. Afterwards, we have gone to the graveyards and have seen other women there too, paying their respects to passed away relatives. Obviously, you are supposed to dress properly and not go if you are menstruating.
One myth I have heard as to why women should not go to graveyards is because the dead can see women naked. 
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^ saheeh hadith says that women r not to go to graveyards....
wonder why ppl see influence in following ahadith!!!!
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No one does it in my family or people I know..
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Well the local masjids don’t seem to mind…
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probably you mean to say Brelvi type Sunnis allow that cuz DeoBandis don’t allow that.
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I’m not a deobandi and no one in my family does..
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How confusing it must be to sort through hadith to determine if practices are forbidden by God, are cultural or just lies that have been perpetuated by designating documents written by humans on par with scripture. And how sad some societies tell women they are not allowed to visit their family's gravesites.
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yes its very confusing for someone who spent 30-40 years of his life away from Islam and then wants to learn abou it, but if one borns into it then he learns most of it seeing it around, reading it etc.
But if one questions the sources in his religion then there is no end to it, s/he may even find it hard to believe God existed.
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I didn’t mean to say all non-DeoBandis allow it
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Then how do you explain the life long Muslims who can’t agree on this simple subject?
But shoudn’t one question sources since there are thousands of hadith and many have been proven false? Since Muslims believe the Quran to be word of God, I don’t see how you could doubt God exists. But we are talking about the words of mere mortals here that are putting a lot of what was cultural of the time or not important enough for God to put in his FINAL book, but yet dictate how a person lives his/her life as per God’s wishes.
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Don’t give me that crap…your own culture treat grave sites as playgrounds on halloween, and gravesites are common make-out points…spare us the lecture…
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Look, the scholars are split on this matter…so it’s not just a matter of a hadith or two and then it’s case closed. No consensus means just that…no consensus.
Bottom line is, on this matter most people follow local custom and tradition rather than what one or two hadith say…Wahabi culture is agressive and is affecting local culture. I can point out dozens of places where the practice was once tolerated, but now considered taboo…
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What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
That’s quite a strech to find that anyway related to the subject of not allong women to visit their family’s gravesites.
People will smoke pot, drink whiskey or play hide and seek in graveyards too, but allowing perhaps too much freedom in graveyards hardly relates to not allowing any freedom to others.
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Lets make it simple and sweet. YES THEY ARE.