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Visiting graves

زيارة القبور

Visiting graveyards for prayer and remembrance; permitted by the Prophet ﷺ after an earlier prohibition, with practices that differ by country — some forms scholars reject.

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Visiting graves for prayer and remembrance; the Prophet permitted it after first forbidding it, and customs vary between countries, with some excesses that scholars reject. {1}

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· al-Anwāʾ (Star Rains)· Jahiliyya names of days and months· The ill-omened days· Divining Arrows· The temples of the seven planets· The fire-temples· The ghul

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  1. Sahih Muslim
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islam.museum contributors. “Visiting graves”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/practice/ziyarat-al-qubur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.