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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Hanging Qur'anic Verses in the Car, Home, and Shop

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Question:
And the restriction of the matter, so let it be that you know by its verses as usual.

Answer:
And hanging Qur'anic verses, in reality, the intention behind it is the belief that these verses ward off the evil eye from the car, or from the home, or from the shop, or that they bring in customers, or ward off the envious. This is of the hanging of amulets.
This is what is prohibited in the hadith: whoever hangs an amulet has committed shirk (associating partners with Allah), because this is relying on other than Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). These are the amulets that are prohibited. However, if the intention behind it is merely to remind, as they say, "We hang the verse so that whoever sees it remembers and remembers Allah," or we hang the hadith, this is lighter, but it is not from the practice of the Salaf (the earliest generations), and it exposes the Qur'an and the hadiths to disrespect.
One might hang a verse in this home, and this home becomes a place for sins, backbiting, talebearing, or committing lewd acts, or other things, or for songs and musical instruments. And you have hung this verse in this home, which is a place of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and a place of evil. This is a disrespect to the Qur'an. Even if you keep this verse while you are present, someone after you may do these things, and you will be the cause. The result is that the Qur'an is to be protected from this. The Salaf (the earliest generations), who were more knowledgeable than us, more aware than us, more eager for good than us, and more devoted to dhikr (the remembrance of Allah) than us, did not hang these dhikr on the roads, or on the doors, or on the cars, or on the walls. Rather, they performed them with their actions, their tongues, and their practical observance. As for hanging them on a wall, or on a board, or on a car, this is in reality not a good appearance, and it is a disrespect to the texts, exposing them to disrespect. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 26 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/القنطرة بين الجنة والنار/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة — youtube.com (59:03)

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