The ruling on the imam raising his voice in the mosque and his memorization of the Qur'an

Question:
This questioner says: We have a problem with the imam of our neighborhood mosque. He does not memorize from the Qur'an except a few verses, and this has been going on for about six years. He repeats these same verses and surahs, even though the mosque has a large congregation, praise be to Allah. We also thank the Honorable Shaykh Salih for the microphones inside the mosque, which are very noisy. We seek forgiveness from Allah for this statement. It is the noise that prevents us from being humble in prayer. We have previously told this brother to move away from the microphone a little, because we want to be humble with him, but he is insistent, and this has caused a problem between us and him, which is stubbornness. We ask you, Honorable Shaykh, to clarify this matter.

Answer:
The imam must fear Allah the Mighty and Majestic, and not cause hardship for the ma'mum (those praying behind him) or the people of knowledge. He should not follow his own personal ideas or ignore their observations. What the questioner mentioned about him raising his voice, making it loud, or creating an echo is undoubtedly a form of harm and hardship for the listeners. Therefore, he should keep his voice at a level where those behind him and those inside the mosque can hear him without being disturbed, because raising the voice beyond what is necessary disrupts the worship, harms humility, distracts the worshippers, and harms them. So this imam, and others, should fear Allah regarding raising the voice beyond what is necessary with the amplifier or by adding an echo to the amplifier, for this is exaggeration and showing off, and there is no need for it. As for memorization, the imam should strive to memorize the Qur'an, or at least achieve memorization of the Mus-haf (the final part of the Qur'an), which is four or five parts, approximately, from the end of the Qur'an, and read from it in the five daily prayers. There is no objection to reading from the mushaf (written copy of the Qur'an) in the tarawih or tahajjud prayers. However, in the obligatory prayers, he should memorize from the end of the Qur'an and from the short and medium surahs what he reads in his prayer, and not stick to certain verses or surahs that he repeats, because this bores the ma'mum. If he strives to memorize the Mus-haf or the A'mash (a portion of the Qur'an), so that he has a reserve of surahs he has memorized and reads from them, and does not limit himself to certain surahs that he repeats in his prayers, thereby boring the ma'mum, that is good. If he is unable to do this, he should relinquish the imamate to someone better than him, and not remain in conflict with the ma'mum, which leads to misunderstanding and enmity between them. The imam, on the contrary, should unite the ma'mum and reconcile matters between them and himself, because he is a role model and an imam. He should not be contentious with his opinion and ideas, nor should he ignore what the ma'mum propose that is in the interest of worship, and not what contradicts worship. Yes.