{"id":3277,"date":"2021-08-06T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T07:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2021-08-06T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T07:46:41","slug":"the-status-of-consuming-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"The status of consuming sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>The status of consuming sand<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q. A widow is finding it very hard to cope after her husband&#8217;s death. Somebody prescribed that she should take sand from his grave and drink it to make her emotionally stronger. Is there any basis for this and will it be permissible?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>There is no basis in eating or drinking sand from the deceased&#8217;s grave in Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, it is disliked (Makrooh) to consume sand. However, if by consuming sand, there is a fear of it being harmful to one&#8217;s health, one would not be permitted to do so.\u00a0<strong>(Hindiyyah 5\/340)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The status of consuming sand Q. A widow is finding it very hard to cope after her husband&#8217;s death. Somebody prescribed that she should take sand<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-janazah","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}