What are the etiquettes of visiting the Haram?

Question:
There are people in the Haram who gather around one another, talk among themselves, and disturb the one reciting the Qur'an and the one remembering Allah. They are numerous, and some of them may disturb the one reciting the Qur'an and the one praying by laughing, as if the Haram has become a park. What is your advice? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Yes, this is a bad phenomenon that many people have adopted in the Masjid al-Haram. They make it a place for eating and drinking and spreading out carpets; it has become a restaurant, as if it were a restaurant and a cafe, and worse than that is what the questioner mentioned: laughing and talking about worldly matters and joking. If these people sat in the street, it would be better for them than this. They are doing wrong in the Masjid al-Haram or other mosques. Mosques were built only for the remembrance of Allah the Exalted, prayer, and the recitation of the Qur'an, especially the Haram, the Masjid al-Haram. Sitting in it is i'tikaf (spiritual retreat in the mosque), . So it is a place for tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka'bah), a place for i'tikaf, a place for prayer, and a place for the remembrance of Allah the Exalted. Do not waste your time in these trifles, stories, and jokes. Leave this. Fear Allah the Exalted. Seize the opportunity in this Haram. Seize the opportunity through obedience, remembrance, and i'tikaf, with the intention of i'tikaf so that you may attain reward and recompense. One person comes from his country, from the farthest part of the earth, and he laughs and chats in the Haram and wastes his time. This is a loss. This is an irreparable loss. Yes.