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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on the imam completing the recitation of the Qur'an in the loud prayers

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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, the imam of our mosque recites the Qur'an from the beginning of Surat al-Baqarah to Surat al-Nas in the loud prayers, and he completes the recitation every month or every two months. What is the ruling on this practice?

Answer:
This question has been repeated, and the answer has been repeated. We said that this is a bid'ah (religious innovation). This is an innovation. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do this in the obligatory prayers.
so recite what is easy [for you] of the Qur'anفَاقْرَءُوا مَا تَيَسَّرَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ
[Al-Muzzammil 73:20]
This causes difficulty for the imams, who think that this is prescribed and therefore adhere to it.
So this is a difficulty. Also, it has no basis. It is an innovated practice. The one who wants to recite the Qur'an and complete its recitation should do so in the voluntary prayers, in the night prayer, or in his free time. He should not do it in the obligatory prayer. Or, if he is praying the obligatory prayer alone, with no congregation, far from the congregation and praying by himself, there is nothing wrong with him reciting the Qur'an until he completes it. But if he prays with people and causes them difficulty in this, and establishes a practice for the imams that Allah and His Messenger did not establish, then this is a great error.
And it is strange that they leave off completing the recitation of the Qur'an in the tarawih prayers in Ramadan, and they are lazy about it, and perhaps they say it is a bid'ah, while they adhere to this in what is not prescribed. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6823- حكم ختم الإمام القرآن في الصلاة الجهرية - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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