What is the specified distance for responding to the call when it is heard?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, with the loudspeakers of this era, the voice reaches far distances. Is responding to the call absolute regardless of how far the distance is, or is there a specific distance beyond which the obligation to respond to the call is dropped?
Answer:
The relied-upon position is the voice without the microphone. If you hear the call without a microphone, you must attend. However, if you only hear the call through a loudspeaker, this does not obligate you to attend, because the loudspeaker extends it to far distances, to ten or twenty kilometers. So the loudspeaker does not obligate you to attend. What obligates you to attend is if the adhan is called without a loudspeaker and you hear it. If it is the case that you would hear it if the adhan were called without a loudspeaker, then you must attend.
Honorable Shaykh, with the loudspeakers of this era, the voice reaches far distances. Is responding to the call absolute regardless of how far the distance is, or is there a specific distance beyond which the obligation to respond to the call is dropped?
Answer:
The relied-upon position is the voice without the microphone. If you hear the call without a microphone, you must attend. However, if you only hear the call through a loudspeaker, this does not obligate you to attend, because the loudspeaker extends it to far distances, to ten or twenty kilometers. So the loudspeaker does not obligate you to attend. What obligates you to attend is if the adhan is called without a loudspeaker and you hear it. If it is the case that you would hear it if the adhan were called without a loudspeaker, then you must attend.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما هي المسافة المتعينة لإجابة النداء عند سماعه؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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