How to Offer Condolences
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The questioner : How do women offer condolences to one another in these days without gathering together?
The Shaykh : If there is kinship or something similar, you go there to offer condolences and leave; you do not sit down.
The questioner : What if they come from a far place and have lunch and dinner?
The Shaykh : There is no objection if they come from a far place and have lunch and dinner; there is no objection. But the gathering that is prepared for, where you find, for example, they put out the lamps and bring in the incense and the like, that is what is forbidden.
The Shaykh : If there is kinship or something similar, you go there to offer condolences and leave; you do not sit down.
The questioner : What if they come from a far place and have lunch and dinner?
The Shaykh : There is no objection if they come from a far place and have lunch and dinner; there is no objection. But the gathering that is prepared for, where you find, for example, they put out the lamps and bring in the incense and the like, that is what is forbidden.