Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
Posted on 06/28/2012 by marina
NAUHAH. نوحة
“Lamentations for the dead.” The employment of paid mourners is forbidden by the Sunni law, for Abu Sa’idu ‘l-Khudri says “The Prophet cursed both the paid mourner sad him that listened to thier lamentations.” (Mishkat, book v. ch viii. pt. 2.)
Based on Hughes, Dictionary of Islam
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