The Tasbih with the Electronic Tasbih Counter
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner asks: What is the ruling on doing dhikr with what is called an electronic tasbih?
Answer:
One does not do dhikr except with his fingers; he does dhikr with his fingers and counts the dhikr with them. He does not do dhikr with a machine or with these newly invented things. Yes, one may use the beads of a tasbih to count the dhikr so as not to make a mistake, just as one counts with pebbles, as Juwayriyah, the Mother of the Believers, used to do with pebbles to count the dhikr. There is nothing wrong with that.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner asks: What is the ruling on doing dhikr with what is called an electronic tasbih?
Answer:
One does not do dhikr except with his fingers; he does dhikr with his fingers and counts the dhikr with them. He does not do dhikr with a machine or with these newly invented things. Yes, one may use the beads of a tasbih to count the dhikr so as not to make a mistake, just as one counts with pebbles, as Juwayriyah, the Mother of the Believers, used to do with pebbles to count the dhikr. There is nothing wrong with that.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية، العقيدة الواسطية 13-03-1438هـ — alfawzan.live (1:05:38)
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