Ruling on paying a sum of money to receive religious messages via mobile phone
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: There are charitable websites on the internet that send three messages every month in exchange for paying twelve riyals. Is it permissible for me to pay this amount to receive these messages, which contain some hadiths and dhikr?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
He says: There are charitable websites on the internet that send three messages every month in exchange for paying twelve riyals. Is it permissible for me to pay this amount to receive these messages, which contain some hadiths and dhikr?
The Shaykh:
We cannot rule on these messages until we see them. If they are good and wholesome, then this is a matter of purchase; you buy them. But if they are dhikr that is not established, and the one who compiled them is not trustworthy, then there is no good in them. So it is necessary to look into them. Yes. And dhikr, praise be to Allah, is sold in bookstores in trustworthy books, such as *Al-Adhkar* by al-Nawawi, *Al-Wabil al-Sayb* by Ibn al-Qayyim, and *Al-Kalimah al-Tayyibah* by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. Books of dhikr exist. Is there a need to send them on mobile phones or on the internet? But these people appear to be mercenaries. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: There are charitable websites on the internet that send three messages every month in exchange for paying twelve riyals. Is it permissible for me to pay this amount to receive these messages, which contain some hadiths and dhikr?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
He says: There are charitable websites on the internet that send three messages every month in exchange for paying twelve riyals. Is it permissible for me to pay this amount to receive these messages, which contain some hadiths and dhikr?
The Shaykh:
We cannot rule on these messages until we see them. If they are good and wholesome, then this is a matter of purchase; you buy them. But if they are dhikr that is not established, and the one who compiled them is not trustworthy, then there is no good in them. So it is necessary to look into them. Yes. And dhikr, praise be to Allah, is sold in bookstores in trustworthy books, such as *Al-Adhkar* by al-Nawawi, *Al-Wabil al-Sayb* by Ibn al-Qayyim, and *Al-Kalimah al-Tayyibah* by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. Books of dhikr exist. Is there a need to send them on mobile phones or on the internet? But these people appear to be mercenaries. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [403- 4717] حكم دفع مبلغ من المال مقابل استلام رسائل دينية عبر الجوال - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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