Playing a Qur'an recording to calm the students before the iqamah
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Question:
I am an administrator at an elementary school. When the time for the midday prayer arrives and we take the students out to wait for the prayer, they talk a lot, raise their voices, and play before the iqamah. One of the brothers suggested that we play a recording of a Qur'an reciter with a beautiful voice so that the students would listen to it and stop playing and making noise until the iqamah. We would like to ask you, Honorable Shaykh, about the permissibility of this action before we proceed with it?
Answer:
I see no obstacle to it if the intention is for the benefit of keeping the voices down. I do not see, if Allah wills, anything that prevents it. However, it is better if one person recites live rather than using a recording.
I am an administrator at an elementary school. When the time for the midday prayer arrives and we take the students out to wait for the prayer, they talk a lot, raise their voices, and play before the iqamah. One of the brothers suggested that we play a recording of a Qur'an reciter with a beautiful voice so that the students would listen to it and stop playing and making noise until the iqamah. We would like to ask you, Honorable Shaykh, about the permissibility of this action before we proceed with it?
Answer:
I see no obstacle to it if the intention is for the benefit of keeping the voices down. I do not see, if Allah wills, anything that prevents it. However, it is better if one person recites live rather than using a recording.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/132 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:16:09)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.