These are all innovations and one should not attend such gatherings.

When people do gatherings in the Masjids, like I asked you about muharram where they do gathering to talk about Karbala, the martyrdom of imam Hussain may Allah be pleased with him. Once they finish the speech, a person brings food in a tray, which the people eat at the end and the imam reads certain surahs like surah iklas surah falaq surah nas part of surah baqarah and a bit of other verses of the Quran. He reads this on the food its called katam sharif and then at the end they do duaa by raising their hands and cry and supplicate after they have their food and leave and that’s it. all of these things also be done in other gatherings and sometimes they don’t like in maulid in nabi celebrating the prophet Mohammed peace be upon him birthday and some other gatherings. is this innovations part of Islam