The Ruling on Imitating Reciters in Recitation
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Question:
This questioner asks, Shaykh, about the ruling on imitating reciters. This has become widespread in a clip of Surat al-Fatihah, where the first verse is recited in one style, the second in another, and the third likewise, and so on.
Answer:
Imitating the Qur'an in terms of mastery, mastering the Qur'an, and correcting the recitation, this is good and obligatory. As for imitating the Qur'an by voice only, by voices, this is an affectation. Listeners and people find it repulsive if it is not in your own voice, but rather you affect the voices of the Qur'an and imitate them. This involves affectation, and it also bores people and tires them of listening to you. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
This questioner asks, Shaykh, about the ruling on imitating reciters. This has become widespread in a clip of Surat al-Fatihah, where the first verse is recited in one style, the second in another, and the third likewise, and so on.
Answer:
Imitating the Qur'an in terms of mastery, mastering the Qur'an, and correcting the recitation, this is good and obligatory. As for imitating the Qur'an by voice only, by voices, this is an affectation. Listeners and people find it repulsive if it is not in your own voice, but rather you affect the voices of the Qur'an and imitate them. This involves affectation, and it also bores people and tires them of listening to you. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/249 — archive.org (9:55)
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