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Scenario

How Islamic mourning gatherings expose family dysfunction

I have been dreading my father's forty-day ceremony because it means I have to see the family members who abandoned him when he was dying.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Obligatory mourning ceremonies can force painful confrontations with family members whose absence during illness feels unforgivable.

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Mira
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Islamic mourning — the forty-day tradition?”

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