…Weeping and sorrow do not contradict the suppression of anger and patience.

…Weeping and sorrow do not contradict the suppression of anger and patience.” [3] Then if a Prophet of God (Hazrat Ya’qub) despite having other eleven sons could weep, mourn and became grief continuously for forty years for missing just a son; Yusuf (i.e. the dearest son to him); then, what is the religious hindrance for weeping or mourning for the loved ones when they died?!

Apart from the Quranic verses, (PBUHH), there are several narrations in both the Sunni and Shia sources that establish that the noble Prophet (PBUHH) and some of his companions used to weep and grieve over the death of their loved ones. For instance: Death of Khadija and Abu Talib The year the prophet’s wife, Khadijah , and his uncle, Abu-Talib , died was referred to by the prophet as the year of grief. The year 619 turned out to be a year of sorrow for Muhammad Mustafa in more than one sense.

The death of one’s loved ones is naturally an occasion for sorrow. But in the case of Muhammad, the death of these two friends was not merely a subjective experience for him. He was soon made conscious of the meaning of their death by a series of extraneous events [4] . Death of the Prophet’s Sons It was reported that the Prophet (PBUHH) wept and mourned over the death of his sons, Ibrahim and Ṭahir.

The Messenger of Allah (PBUHH) said: A child was born to me at night, and I named him after my (spiritual) father, Ibrahim. He then narrated the rest of the tradition. Anas said: I saw it at the point of death before the Messenger of Allah (PBUHH). Tears began to fall from the eyes of the Messenger of Allah (PBUHH). He said: The eye weeps and the heart grieves, but we say only what our Lord is pleased with, and we are grieved for you, Ibrahim [5] .

In the book of Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id , it was documented that the Prophet wept over the death of his son, Ṭahir, and he said: “The eyes shed tears, the tears overcome, the heart grieves, and we do not disobey God Almighty [6] .” Death of the Prophet’s Uncle, Hamza It was reported that when the uncle of the Prophet, Hamzah, was martyred in the battle of Uhud, he cried, and when he heard the Ansar women crying for their martyrs, he said: “But Hamza does not have anyone to mourn him!” Sa’d b.

Mu’adh heard this and took women to the house of the Prophet (s), and they mourned for Hamza. Since then, any woman from the Ansar (The Helpers) who wanted to mourn for a deceased person would first mourn for Hamza [7] .