A flyer promising thousands of good deeds for reciting al-Fatihah in one minute
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The questioner:
I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is a flyer that is circulating, and it states that in one minute you can recite Surat al-Fatihah five times, thereby obtaining more than seven thousand good deeds, and so on.
The Shaykh:
That is, they guarantee him that he will obtain seven thousand good deeds.
The questioner:
Is this speech permissible?
The Shaykh:
But they encourage the remembrance of Allah and the recitation of the Qur'an. However, that they promise and provide calculations, using a computer to calculate the good deeds, they do not know about this. With Allah the Exalted, this is nonsense. Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions.
I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is a flyer that is circulating, and it states that in one minute you can recite Surat al-Fatihah five times, thereby obtaining more than seven thousand good deeds, and so on.
The Shaykh:
That is, they guarantee him that he will obtain seven thousand good deeds.
The questioner:
Is this speech permissible?
The Shaykh:
But they encourage the remembrance of Allah and the recitation of the Qur'an. However, that they promise and provide calculations, using a computer to calculate the good deeds, they do not know about this. With Allah the Exalted, this is nonsense. Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/137 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:20:16)
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