What is the ruling on reciting Surat al-Baqarah in a new house and a new vehicle?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Some people recite Surat al-Baqarah in a new house and a new vehicle.
Answer:
This is a bid'ah (religious innovation); there is no evidence that Surat al-Baqarah is to be recited in a house. It is not reported that it is to be recited [in this manner]. The Shaytan flees from the house in which Surat al-Baqarah is recited. If you want to drive the Shaytan away, recite the Qur'an in your house, and from it is Surat al-Baqarah. Yes. As for answering a recording and leaving it to recite al-Baqarah, what is this? Does that achieve the goal? A recording is iron and a tape; recitation is worship, and it must be from a believer and from a person who recites it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Some people recite Surat al-Baqarah in a new house and a new vehicle.
Answer:
This is a bid'ah (religious innovation); there is no evidence that Surat al-Baqarah is to be recited in a house. It is not reported that it is to be recited [in this manner]. The Shaytan flees from the house in which Surat al-Baqarah is recited. If you want to drive the Shaytan away, recite the Qur'an in your house, and from it is Surat al-Baqarah. Yes. As for answering a recording and leaving it to recite al-Baqarah, what is this? Does that achieve the goal? A recording is iron and a tape; recitation is worship, and it must be from a believer and from a person who recites it. Yes.
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم قراءة سورة البقرة في البيت الجديد والمركب الجديد؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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