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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the ruling on hiring a mutawwif and repeating supplications behind him during tawaf?

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The questioner : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on hiring a mutawwif during tawaf and sa'y, and repeating supplications behind him while we are a group?

The Shaykh : Hiring him during tawaf, what do you mean by hiring him during tawaf? This is just written down. Hiring him for tawaf means what? Yes. Continue.

The questioner : What is the ruling on hiring a mutawwif during tawaf and sa'y, and repeating supplications behind him while we are a group?

The Shaykh : The mutawwif. He should guide the circumambulators to what is in their benefit, directing them during tawaf. For example, he says: "Take hold of the Black Stone before the Black Stone, then go around with the Ka'bah on your left, and supplicate to Allah as you wish. Say between the two corners:
Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good and protect us from the punishment of the Fire."رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ
[Al-Baqarah 2:201]
" He guides them to what is in their benefit. As for supplicating with a loud voice while they follow him behind, that is a nuisance to the circumambulators and a disturbance to them, especially since this supplication and dhikr is entirely a bid'ah (religious innovation). Indeed, this supplication, in which each lap is assigned a specific supplication, is a bid'ah with no basis, as stated by
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 1 - 15 - دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام للعام 1412 هـ - الدرس الأول - الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين — youtube.com (1:27:32)

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