How the graveyard’s wood is to be spent

Question

Is it permissible to sell the graveyard’s wood and use it for construction work in a madrasa or a mosque, or not?

Answer

The graveyard’s wood should be sold and its money spent on the protection of the graveyard, a boundary wall and the like. If there is no place to spend it there, nor is a future need predominantly expected, and there is no way for that money to be kept safe — rather there is a danger of it being lost — then, after mutual consultation, it is correct to spend it on the needs of…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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