Re: Too Extreme
So what exactly are you saying about it? With this description, something that comes to mind is the trend of gathering people to complete a reading of the Qur’an between a few people. There’s nothing wrong with the practice in and of itself. So something that can be done is that we explain it to the participants what is really going on here. Like we’re doing this for isaal sawaab and that recitation of the Qur’an is a good deed. The deceased is now in need of whatever he can get from the living since he is unable to do it himself. This doesn’t have to be limited to this particular reading of the Qur’an but anytime you do a good deed, you can do isaal - sawaab for them. If we explain it like this, there’s nothing wrong with it.
However if we’re thinking that it’s sunnah to do a Qur’an khatam for every deceased and that there it must be done after x number of days, on anniversaries of the death etc…when we put these restrictions, that’s where it becomes a problem.
Another example is that if you recite a certain portion of the Qur’an every day, let’s say maybe half a juz or a complete juz..and people start copying that, there’s no problem there. For the sake of doing something regularly, if we set goals for ourselves like this, there’s nothing wrong with it.
Is this the type of thing you’re referring to?