Reports | 25 05 2020
Even funeral rituals have not been spared change as a result of the conflict in Syria. It has been customary for parents and family to gather to bury their dead, pray for them, and then return for the wake at the family home, reading the Quran and reciting prayers for the dead. These age-old customs have laregly disappeared today, according to Murad an Aleppo native.
The young man explains to Rozana: "In the past, the death of an individual, had a significant impact on his relatives and the people of his hometown. This was true to the extent that even a person not directly related would postpone his own wedding, as if he were a member of the deceased's family." He says that death has today become commonplace, and a word of consolation is the maximum that can be provided to the family of the deceased.
Given the prevalence of killings and bloodshed, people nowadays simply bury the dead, read the Fatiha prayer, then quickly leaving the cemetery, for fear of live shooting that usually target gatherings in cemeteries.
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