Decorating Mosques with Patterns and Verses

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: In the hadith , and many mosques are decorated with patterns and verses, even the mosques of many students of knowledge and scholars. The question is: What is your opinion of this phenomenon? And was this the practice of the Salaf in their mosques?

Answer:
Praise be to Allah, our mosque has no decorations and no writings. As for the mosques that have decorations and writings, this is disliked without a doubt. It is disliked to decorate mosques and write in them because this distracts the worshippers by looking at these decorations, and because it is a form of showing off. Showing off in matters of worship and matters of good projects, if the intention is showing off and praise, then it is not permissible. It should be that mosques are free from these patterns and writings. This mosque is not a museum; the mosque is a house of worship and remembrance of Allah the Exalted. It is not one of the museums where decorations or ornaments or other things are placed. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you