Huzoor (rh): Now before the question of religion comes in, the law of India would stand in between you and that attempt.
Questioner: I think India would be pleased for the publicity it would get.
Huzoor (rh): So nothing is barring India from doing it, doing this, because Indian religion doesn’t debar such a thing. There is no point in your undertaking it because Islam discourages opening of graves unnecessarily, without any compulsion. For a purpose, yes, you can, for instance sometimes the water table rises to a degree where the graves are in danger, they can be a source of danger, I mean there can be a source of danger for everybody if they are thrown out sometimes because of the rising water table. There you can dig them and remove them to a safer place and similarly in the time of Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the graves were removed from one place to another in the following, during the following era.
I mean the people who were buried at the time ofHuzoor-e-Akbar Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam were removed from that place for certain necessity to some other place. So that is not prohibited, but just for the fun of it or just for the inquisitiveness of somebody, Islam discourages it, though there is not any positive injunction prohibiting it altogether, but this is the tradition. So no Ahmadiyya would go for that, but we don’t have to. The Indian government are interested in fact to attract more visitors and tourists from abroad and the Ahmadiyya work is because of that selfish attitude, personal gains has been taken up already by the Indian government and they are publishing this fact to attract European tourists. So may be someday in collaboration with some investigators from Europe, they go about it if Allah permits.
