Re: Too much Matam ?
I went for one of these...My experience -
It was fairly late at night and so my 6 yr old was asleep on the floor. And when one of the janazaa was brought out...suddenly there was a scramble and women all around me started to follow it around...One of them kicked my sleeping child on the floor because she was in the way. Nobody informed us that this part of the seating area would suddenly become a path. I am still shaking as I type this ..... after nearly 3 years!!!
I am all for whatever rituals or traditions people would like to follow....but I thought why mourn the dead when you cannot respect a living child!!!! I don't think that the Imam's family they were mourning would have looked down too kindly on this sort of action. This is not what they taught us!
I am still shaking at this!