People gossip while the body is still warm and yet to be buried. People laugh, even louder while the dead is being bathed. And people swear and cuss without realising that they could be the ones waiting to be prayed upon.
And when it's decided that the third day will be observed as a 'du'a' day for the dead, people troop in just to fight over rabbo (gifts) and food shared at the funeral grounds. The rabbo was initiated in order to serve as sadaqa (or continuous charity) on behalf of the dead (as I recall growing up) but it has now lost its relevance. People fight over it right at the funeral grounds and others get pissed at the person sharing them for either not giving them some, not giving them enough or not letting them have what they wanted from it. Some of the rabbos are even preserved for 'protocols'. Protocols, even at the funeral.
Our people shout for people to make merry at our funerals. We pridefully eat and enjoy while laughing heartily with the bereaved. People actually have fun at funerals these days.
In all of this, I ask myself, Who Are The Company You Keep? Do you have a family that upholds Islam even in death?! Do you have friends that have sense? Forget about who will cry; Who will genuinely pray for you when you die and continuosly remember to do so?! And how are they going to send you off?!
May Allah guide us and the entire ummah. The people supposed to live Islam are scarier by day.
