IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF SOME ENLIGHTENED PERSON WOULD CARE TO ELUCIDATE ON THE FOLLOWING POINTS:
- IN PAKISTAN THERE ARE HUGE GRAVEYARDS WHERE THE FAITHFUL BURY THEIR BELOVED AND WHERE THEY FREQUENTLY VISIT ON THURSDAYS AND ISLAMIC HOLIDAYS AND WHERE THEY ADORN THE GRAVES WITH INCENSE AND FLOWERS.
- MOST OF THE GRAVEYARDS, SAVE FOR THE PRIVATELY OWNED ONES, ARE UNPLANNED AND WHERE GRAVES ARE DUG WHEREVER THERE IS SOME SPACE.
- MOST OF THESE GRAVEYARDS ARE MANAGED BY ILLITERATE PERSONNEL WHO HAVE TAKEN-OVER THESE YARDS AS THEIR PERSONAL PROPERTIES AND WHERE THEY CHARGE WHATEVER THEY WANT TO ALLOT A SPACE FOR THE DEAD.WHO HAS GIVEN THEM THIS AUTHORITY OR ARE THESE FAMILY-OWNED VENTURES FOR GENERATIONS ?
- MANY PEOPLE SHOW THEIR INTENSE LOVE FOR THEIR BELOVED BY ERECTING MINI-MAUSOLEUMS OVER THEIR GRAVES.ISN’T THIS PATHETIC AND A SURE DISPLAY OF OSTENTATION AND EXHIBITION OF THEIR FINANCIAL BACKGROUND.
- MANY FAMILIES HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONAL ENCLAVES.IS THIS PERMISSIBLE ?
- IN SAUDI ARABIA, THE GRAVES ARE UNMARKED AND AFTER A REASONABLE TIME, ARE REUSED AGAIN. IS THIS POLICY POSSIBLE IN PAKISTAN ? IF IT IS, WHAT WILL BE THE RAMIFICATIONS KEEPING IN VIEW THE EMOTIONAL BOND THE PAKISTANIS HAVE FOR THE DEAD ?
- CAN THE GOVERNMENT PASS LEGISLATION REGULATING THE GRAVEYARDS AND FIXING THE MODUS OPERANDI AS IN SAUDI ARABIA ?
- IS THERE ANY WAY THE GRAVES BE MARKED AND SYSTEMATICALLY ORGANIZED RATHER THAN THE HOTCH-POTCH SITUATION AT PRESENT ?
- THERE IS IMMENSE CONFUSION AND RUSH AT GRAVEYARDS DURING THE FESTIVALS LIKE EID AND SHAB-E-BARAAT WHEN MILLIONS GO TO THE GRAVEYARDS. WHAT STEPS CAN BE TAKEN TO CONTROL THIS ONRUSH ?
- WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON INCENSE AND FLOWERS, AND ON SOLIDIFYING THE GRAVES BY USE OF MARBLE AND GLAZED TILES ?
- IS THERE ANY QURANIC INSTRUCTION OR IS THERE ANY HADITH WHICH ORDAINS THIS PRACTICE ?
- OR IS THIS CUSTOM JUST A PAROCHIAL RITUAL DEVELOPED OVER THE CENTURIES AND IS PRIMARILY PREVALENT IN INDO-PAKISTAN ?
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