Visiting Prophet Muhammad (sws) Grave
How come it falls into the category of shirk? Shirk is to make partners with God in His Being or attributes. There is nothing like that here, except that one prays to the prophet which is shirk. The right question could be, it is true or not to consider the place of the prophet’s grave sacred. Yes, it is sacred as the last prophet is known to be buried there. and we can hope that it due to our affiliation with the prophet, God would have special blessing on us while praying near his grave.
Discussion 75931 In this discussion I asked visiting shrines thinking it is a sacred place or more duas are accepted there..what I have understood from the reply was that it is considered shirk..and we should only visit grave for asking Dua for dead person.