Placing screens and writings in mosques
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the ruling on placing screens in the mosque, at the back, to display hadiths and some rulings in order to benefit the people?
Answer:
No, screens or writings are not to be placed in the mosque, nor are things to be hung up. The mosque is to be kept free of all these matters and distractions. Did the Salaf (the earliest generations) do this? They would hang up papers of dhikr (the remembrance of Allah) after the prayer. I mean, have people reached such a level of ignorance? My brother, the common person knows how to say the dhikr after the prayer. You find that some of them learn it from others through practice. There is no need for you to write writings for them and hang them in front of them. This is nonsense and an innovation in the mosques. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the ruling on placing screens in the mosque, at the back, to display hadiths and some rulings in order to benefit the people?
Answer:
No, screens or writings are not to be placed in the mosque, nor are things to be hung up. The mosque is to be kept free of all these matters and distractions. Did the Salaf (the earliest generations) do this? They would hang up papers of dhikr (the remembrance of Allah) after the prayer. I mean, have people reached such a level of ignorance? My brother, the common person knows how to say the dhikr after the prayer. You find that some of them learn it from others through practice. There is no need for you to write writings for them and hang them in front of them. This is nonsense and an innovation in the mosques. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب فتح المجيد في شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع كتاب التوحيد - 4 — islamhouse.com (1:06:08)
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