TNA - Beirut - Lebanese Member of Hezbollah Central Council Sheikh Hassan Baghdadi assured that Hadith of "Good graves are plane" does not conflict with visiting graves of the believers, and visit the grave of the Prophet Muhammad and his family and pure companions, because it is about the tomb\'s stones, but on his visit.

In an exclusive interview with TNA, Sheikh Baghdadi explained several points related to visiting the graves, and pointed for the intellectual seminar to be held on next Wednesday in the hall of precincts near the Shiite Supreme Islamic Council and a group of distinguished clerics will take part in, this is the text of the interview:

This seminar is out of concern of Shiite clerics heritage, within this file is the doctrine that clerics cares about essentially, and there is a section in this file named comparative jurisprudence which means to review the views of scholars of Islamic sects, so we assess a series of conferences and seminars.

As we had in the past the martyrs seminar first and second in Beirut, now we organize this third Unionist conference, also in comparative jurisprudence we have a series of seminars as we had in the past year a series of provisions of the Hajj, through the perspective of martyrs Mohammed Makki Jezzini and Zinedine Aljbaa. 

"In this year and at the same occasion, we wanted to review the same idea, but from the perspective of graves visits the and shrines, because this topic is of great value, especially in seasons of Hajj and Umrah, considering that all Muslims go to visit the greatest prophet in the city and visit the imams and the martyrs and the faithful companions in the Baqi, and visit the master of the martyrs of his day the Prophet\'s uncle Hamza, and martyrs of Ohod, and visitting graves of Quraysh in Mecca where the Prophet\'s wife lays, also his fathers, and senior companions and martyrs. Said Sheikh Baghdadi 

He added "we divided the seminar into two parts, that point to graves of believers visits, and also look into visit of Prophet and his purified family and companions graves, peace be upon them. On the subject of visiting the graves of the believers, is most likely by the Sunnis and Shiites, when we infer on the Quran and verses and extensive sources of Sunni and Shiite in the Sihah and others, we find then that the consensus of Islamic schools of thought agreed these visits, because it reminds about Hereafter and makes a person convinced by little and easy. 

Member of Hezbollah Central Council said that "some of the forces beyond the consensus, such as Wahhabist see that visiting graves is contrary to Hadith, we told them that this Hadith is a consensus of Islamic schools of thought, but this sense has nothing to do what we are doing, because we are not talking about stones of the grave but on the visit, and we say the plane grave make the visitor more impressed, but a decorated cemetery may let him forget about the real motive for this visit. Flattening graves affects more positively in creating beautiful and remembering to the Hereafter, regarding this visit the graves of the believers".

He added "Regarding visiting the tomb of the Great Prophet (PBUH) and his purified family and companions peace be upon them, that falls in honoring those characters and thus the message of the Lord Almighty, as stated in the Quran of "Honoring rituals  is from the piety of hearts", so the novels of Sunnites and Shiite confirms in a hadith of "who pelerinated and did not visit me has shunned me". 

On the other hand talked about begging graves, "It was also the subject of forms between us and the Wahhabis considering that request and prayer should be only from God Almighty, and when you ask the owner of the tomb you involve God, this is true, but asking the owner of the tomb to answer a need or healing is not a Lish trap, but because of its dignity will provide us intercession of God Almighty in  the Day of Resurrection, we will prove this in a conference Topics.

And he explained, "They are asking him, because God told them so, there is no independence of them from God to say about partnership, therefore we beleive about the oneness of the Creator and that the almighty God and this ability does not conflict with intercession, as is the case when people die, sometimes directly and other times through the angel Azrael by the Will of God,  who do not becom a partner to God, but he caught the Spirit by God Almighty\'s will. This is the case when the Apostle pray for our forgiveness and accept our prayers, it is because God told him so."

Beirut Office