graveyard (المَقبَرَةُ)

graveyard (المَقبَرَةُ)


الفقه أصول الفقه

التعريف :


Where the dead are buried.

المعنى الاصطلاحي :


Place allocated for burying the dead people.

الشرح المختصر :


"Maqbarah" (cemetery) is a place where there are three or more graves. A place where there is only one or two graves is not considered a "maqbarah".

التعريف اللغوي المختصر :


"Maqbarah": graveyard. Derived from "qabr": grave, the hole in the ground wherein the deceased person is placed. Any place where the body of a deceased person is kept hidden is called "qabr", even the sea. "Qabr" also means the act of burying the deceased in the earth. Original meaning of "qabr": obscurity and invisibility. It was called thus because it conceals the body of the deceased person.