What is the ruling on spreading messages that call for seeking forgiveness due to the cessation of rain, which they call: the Campaign for Seeking Forgiveness?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: It has spread among people via mobile phone messages, their call to seek forgiveness due to the cessation of rain and the scarcity of water, and they called it the Campaign for Seeking Forgiveness. They invite us to send it to the largest number of people. The question is: What is the ruling on sending it, circulating it, and broadcasting it among people?

Answer:
Commanding the seeking of forgiveness is required, especially when the rain is withheld. It is one of the causes for the descent of rain, for it is not withheld except because of sins. But the way the questioner mentioned, which is via mobile phones, this is not appropriate, because there is a fear that things will enter with it that you have not intended. You should admonish people in the mosque or in the gathering, saying: Seek the forgiveness of Allah, ask Allah for rain, or the like of that, without sending it via mobile phones. Yes. May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says. Also in the Friday sermons, in the admonitions, in the lectures, in the lessons. Yes.