The Ruling on Posters, Boards, and Screens in Mosques
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Many mosques are filled with posters and boards that are installed in the mosques, whether they contain supplications, dhikr, or other things, as well as screens. What is the ruling on these matters?
The Shaykh:
It is obligatory to remove them from inside the mosque. Announcements should be outside the mosque, not inside it. A fatwa was issued on this matter during the time of Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baz (may Allah have mercy on him), because no writings are to be placed in mosques, nor are there to be announcements in them, because this distracts the worshippers. They should be outside the mosque.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
No boards or anything else are to be hung in them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Many mosques are filled with posters and boards that are installed in the mosques, whether they contain supplications, dhikr, or other things, as well as screens. What is the ruling on these matters?
The Shaykh:
It is obligatory to remove them from inside the mosque. Announcements should be outside the mosque, not inside it. A fatwa was issued on this matter during the time of Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baz (may Allah have mercy on him), because no writings are to be placed in mosques, nor are there to be announcements in them, because this distracts the worshippers. They should be outside the mosque.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
No boards or anything else are to be hung in them. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 29-06-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (40:59)
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