EVERY Friday, I go to Al-Moulah Cemetery in Makkah to visit my mother's grave. Afterward, I go to the Grand Mosque to perform Friday prayer. While I was sitting near my late mother's grave, a father and his two children, who seemed to hail from an Arab country, caught my attention. They were holding a piece of paper and softly muttering something I was unable to hear clearly. Suddenly, they knelt toward a grave and started weeping bitterly. What happened next completely shocked me. A man jumped out of nowhere and started shouting at the father and his two children. Frankly speaking, they themselves were shocked, especially after he snatched the piece of paper out of the father's hands and started asking the father and his two children to stop crying. I stared at him in disbelief and started wondering why this man was shouting at these people. The other thing that took me by surprise was the way this single-parent family reacted to the entire incident. The father kept trying to calm down the man who apparently wanted the family to stop crying over the grave and never visit the cemetery again because he said it is haram (impermissible) in Islam. Before this man appeared, everything was calm and serene and I am sure the family was in deep supplication, praying that Allah forgives their beloved ones who have departed this world. The way the man kept shouting “haram” reminded me of a robot who keeps repeating the only word he was programmed to speak. I decided to approach him and ask why he thinks visiting the grave of a beloved one and praying for him or her is haram. Once I had asked the question, he and I got into a lengthy debate. I told him visiting graves is one of the matters that has won the consensus of Muslim scholars in the Gulf and beyond. He, however, kept on arguing with me. This is when I left him talking and walked away praying that Allah would guide him and his likes to the right path because such people have done nothing but distort our religion as they refuse to listen to the sound of logic.