Judicial Law Views Quarterly (Law Views)

In Islamic societies and among the Shiites in particular, in accordance with the necessity of respecting the divine rituals, mourning for the prophet and his esteemed family as an instance of divine rituals, is considered to be admired and appreciated. However, the mourning rituals, like many other sorts of social and religious issues, are the subject of the variety of interpretations and instances as some of mourners, venture into weird behaviors such as wounding themselves with cutlass, blade, and lock, walking on fire and hot coals, slithering on glass-dust and etc., and believe in the legitimacy of these behaviors. On the other hand, a group in the criminal justice system advocates the necessity of legal action against these sorts of behaviors. In this study the existing legislative and judiciary policy in this respect would be explained and analyzed, and its accuracy would be evaluated.