Can You Park in Front of Your Neighbor’s House?

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Can You Park in Front of Your Neighbor’s House?

Question:

Your Eminence, Shaykh, can parking a neighbor’s car in front of his neighbor’s door be analogized to driving a wooden stake [into a neighbor’s wall]?

Answer:

No. Parking the car in front of the door is not permissible because it blocks his way. However, parking it in the courtyard in an area he doesn’t need—or where it doesn’t obstruct him—is fine. But if the owner himself needs the courtyard, he has the prior right to it, as it is his courtyard. Yes.