Eating Earth from a Grave

Question

A certain religious scholar says that to lick a little earth from the grave of saints, or a little lime from a plastered (masonry) grave, is permissible, since there is benefit in it — just as Mawlana ‘Abd al-Haqq ﵀ wrote in his fatawa, citing Nisab al-Ihtisab, Khizanat al-Riwayat and Majma‘ al-Barakat, that eating lime with betel is beneficial, or wrote that eating a small quantity of earth in general is permissible without any dislike (karaha).

Answer

[ar]الطِّينُ الَّذِي يُحْمَلُ مِنْ مَكَّةَ وَيُسَمَّى طِينَ حُمْرَةٍ، هَلِ الْكَرَاهِيَةُ فِيهِ كَالْكَرَاهِيَةِ فِي أَكْلِ الطِّينِ عَلَى مَا جَاءَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ؟ قَالَ: الْكَرَاهِيَةُ فِي الْجَمِيعِ مُتَّحِدَةٌ، كَذَا فِي جَوَاهِرِ الْفَتَاوَى. اهـ[/ar] “The clay that is brought from Makka and called ‘tin humra’ — is the dislike (karaha)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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