What are the reasons for the spread of mourning gatherings and the excessive display in condolences?
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Question:
Now, Shaykh Salih, why have people in our time started to exaggerate in this matter of condolences, the tents, and other gatherings?
Answer:
It is due to ignorance, due to ignorance and blind following. Some people imitate others, and they do not find sufficient awareness from the shaykhs and scholars that clarifies these matters to them so that they would leave them. And if it is clarified to them and they do not accept it, then the rulers prevent them from it by authority. Yes.
Now, Shaykh Salih, why have people in our time started to exaggerate in this matter of condolences, the tents, and other gatherings?
Answer:
It is due to ignorance, due to ignorance and blind following. Some people imitate others, and they do not find sufficient awareness from the shaykhs and scholars that clarifies these matters to them so that they would leave them. And if it is clarified to them and they do not accept it, then the rulers prevent them from it by authority. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما أسباب انتشار المآتم والتكلف في العزاء؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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