Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

The ruling on using a loudspeaker in prayer

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
May Allah reward you. We will take a call from Abu Fadhil from 'Asir. Please go ahead. Honorable Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan, may Allah guide you to all that is good, peace be upon you. Peace be upon you. I have four questions. The first question: What is the ruling on amplifying prayers, recitations, sermons, and lectures through external loudspeakers outside the mosque? Amplifying prayers through the loudspeaker, Shaykh Salih?

Answer:
Amplifying prayers and recitation in prayer through the loudspeaker is to the extent of need, to the extent that those present in the mosque can hear, and it should not go outside the mosque, causing disturbance to the houses and to the nearby mosques, because this is an excess and it involves harm. However, the loudspeaker's volume should be limited to those present to the extent of need. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1781 - حكم استخدام مكبر الصوت في الصلاة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa