The Ruling on a Prize for Competing in Memorizing the Qur'an
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A group of women agreed to memorize the Book of Allah, so they set aside a sum of money. Whoever memorizes the most within a specified time will take this money. They made it a form of encouragement for competing in memorization. Is this practice prescribed?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it as an incentive to memorize the Book of Allah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A group of women agreed to memorize the Book of Allah, so they set aside a sum of money. Whoever memorizes the most within a specified time will take this money. They made it a form of encouragement for competing in memorization. Is this practice prescribed?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it as an incentive to memorize the Book of Allah. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وتمام الكلام في هذا المقام العظيم يتبين بأصول نافعة جامعة — islamhouse.com (1:04:07)
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