Obligation of intervention when witnessing a reprehensible act during a funeral procession

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If one is accompanying a funeral procession and witnesses or hears a reprehensible act (*munkar*) and is capable of eradicating and removing it, then eradication is obligatory. If eradication is not possible, there are two differing views. The first view holds that the person must express condemnation and continue following the procession, thereby fulfilling their duty through the act of condemnation, as right must not be abandoned for the sake of wrong. The second view mandates returning, as continuing would result in willingly listening to or witnessing what is forbidden when the option to leave exists.