Raising the voice in dhikr after the prayers and the people's disapproval of it
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from outside this country says: In the mosque where I pray, the people disapprove of my raising my voice in the dhikr after the obligatory prayers, on the grounds that this is a matter of disagreement, and that it provides a means for the Sufis to exploit it to make it a collective dhikr. What is your guidance, Honorable Shaykh? Should I continue raising my voice, or should I leave it off?
Answer:
Yes, continue raising your voice and act according to the Sunnah, and do not pay attention to those who disapprove of you, as long as you are upon the Sunnah. Do not pay attention to those who disapprove of you. And there is no means for the Sufis in this, because the Sufis say the takbir in one voice, intentionally making it collective.
And as for when the mosque is filled with the sound of dhikr without them being arranged in a collective voice, there is no harm in that. Yes. Ibn 'Abbas used to say, "We did not know when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished, because we were young. We did not know when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished the prayer except when we heard the takbir, meaning the dhikr after the prayer." Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from outside this country says: In the mosque where I pray, the people disapprove of my raising my voice in the dhikr after the obligatory prayers, on the grounds that this is a matter of disagreement, and that it provides a means for the Sufis to exploit it to make it a collective dhikr. What is your guidance, Honorable Shaykh? Should I continue raising my voice, or should I leave it off?
Answer:
Yes, continue raising your voice and act according to the Sunnah, and do not pay attention to those who disapprove of you, as long as you are upon the Sunnah. Do not pay attention to those who disapprove of you. And there is no means for the Sufis in this, because the Sufis say the takbir in one voice, intentionally making it collective.
And as for when the mosque is filled with the sound of dhikr without them being arranged in a collective voice, there is no harm in that. Yes. Ibn 'Abbas used to say, "We did not know when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished, because we were young. We did not know when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished the prayer except when we heard the takbir, meaning the dhikr after the prayer." Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 20-01-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (56:50)
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