Arranging the Recitation of the Qur'an in the Prayers Until Completion

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on arranging the recitation of the Qur'an in the prayers such that one recites, for example, from the beginning of Surat al-Baqarah in the Fajr prayer, and then continues in the Maghrib prayer from where he left off in the Fajr prayer, and so on until he finishes the entire Qur'an and then starts over?

Answer:
This is what is reported from the Salaf in terms of action: that they would proceed through the Qur'an until they completed it in the prayers. This is what is reported from the righteous Salaf. We like certain things, and then they develop and become acts of worship, and people come to think they are prescribed, even thinking they are obligatory and that they are necessary. So we do not fear anything that was not practiced by the Salaf. In fact, in the detailed explanation you have, it says that it is disliked to recite the entire Qur'an in the wilderness. Perhaps he means in a single prayer, or perhaps he means in all the obligatory prayers.