The Imam Alerting the Congregation to Turn Off Their Mobile Phones
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Question:
A question that pleases your eminence says: Is it permissible for the imam to alert the congregation to turn off their mobile phones before the prayer?
Answer:
This is something that cannot be done now, and mobile phones have become a necessity for people, and they forget about them. But if someone commits a wrong, they should be pointed out to it. If he raises the volume of the phone, or if the phone has a sound, it is not permissible, just as some people put songs in it and put in it, put in it, sounds that are wrong. This must be forbidden to him and explained to him. And they should lower the volume of the phone, yes.
A question that pleases your eminence says: Is it permissible for the imam to alert the congregation to turn off their mobile phones before the prayer?
Answer:
This is something that cannot be done now, and mobile phones have become a necessity for people, and they forget about them. But if someone commits a wrong, they should be pointed out to it. If he raises the volume of the phone, or if the phone has a sound, it is not permissible, just as some people put songs in it and put in it, put in it, sounds that are wrong. This must be forbidden to him and explained to him. And they should lower the volume of the phone, yes.
Source
75-لقاءات مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 09-5-2-1433 — archive.org (42:58)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.