In the opinion of some local Islamic scholars, this celebration is "not permissible as it likens humans, who have been blessed by God, to animals, and it defiles the human body with the skin of these animals. It also makes it impossible to pray on time, because changing in and out of the clothes takes time, and the individual in question has to wash himself in ablution after each removal of the skins, as they give off a nasty odor, especially in the summer time."