Why do people turn away from supplication and focus on charity and Hajj for the deceased?
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The questioner : Why do people turn away from supplication and focus, for example, on charity and Hajj?
The Shaykh : The first reason is ignorance, because they do not know this hadith that I mentioned, and they do not draw attention to it.
The second reason is emotion. They think that if we give charity on behalf of the deceased, it is as if he himself gave charity, even though he may have been stingy during his lifetime and never gave charity at all. For this reason, people have an emotional attachment to their deceased and do these things for them.
The Shaykh : The first reason is ignorance, because they do not know this hadith that I mentioned, and they do not draw attention to it.
The second reason is emotion. They think that if we give charity on behalf of the deceased, it is as if he himself gave charity, even though he may have been stingy during his lifetime and never gave charity at all. For this reason, people have an emotional attachment to their deceased and do these things for them.