ICYMI: Since the onset of the pandemic, I have found that the burial society has functioned more as a body that follows the philosophy of 'can we get away with it?' and all this while wildly flailing about in a sub-par attempt to find stability in a ...
Haji Mohamed Dawjee is a South African columnist, disruptor of the peace and the author of Sorry, Not Sorry: Experiences of a Brown Woman in a White South Africa. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram: @sage_of_absurdAfter much deliberation and thought, it is with mixed feelings that I have decided to resign my post as chairperson of the burial society, which has served our Muslim communities for several decades.
There are a lot of bribes, backdoor handshakes and very, very dangerous protocols being ignored, all in the name of prayer. There were more than 300 people in attendance. It was wonderful how all these mourners prayed for the deceased whose body lay in front of them, but not so wonderful the following week, when I had to bury 300 more bodies – all of whom attended the funeral, failed to sanitise, stood way too close to each other, hugged the spouse of the deceased, who was also Covid-19 positive, and wore no masks because they feared that if they did, God would fail to hear them pray.
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