Grass in the graveyard

Question

Grass grows in our graveyard. Is it permissible to let animals — cows, oxen, buffaloes — graze there, to earn income from it, and to spend it on the mosque, or not?

Answer

Selling grass that has grown of itself without cutting it — for example, by letting cows and the like loose there so that they graze on it themselves and taking payment for this — such a transaction is not correct in the Shari‘a, and it is also contrary to respect for the graves.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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