The Ruling on Women Participating in the Recitation of the Qur'an on the Radio
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding the voice of a woman, there are some programs for the recitation of the Qur'an in which some of the participants, by telephone, are women who recite the Qur'an. Is there anything wrong with that?
The Shaykh:
On the radio, you mean.
The questioner:
What appears to be the case is that this is the apparent situation. Yes.
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible. It is not permissible for her voice to be heard by men, for people to hear it through the radio. This is not permissible. This is an innovation. It is not found even in the radio stations of the entire world. It is not the case that women recite on the radio. This is something they are doing now on the Qur'an radio station here. Also on the general radio program. Ignorant people have innovated it.
So this is absolutely not permissible. They must be informed and told that this is not permissible. Yes, my brother, none of the radio stations in the Arab countries have women reciting, and this radio station is the most deserving of acting upon the Sunnah and not innovating anything that has no precedent in the Shari'ah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding the voice of a woman, there are some programs for the recitation of the Qur'an in which some of the participants, by telephone, are women who recite the Qur'an. Is there anything wrong with that?
The Shaykh:
On the radio, you mean.
The questioner:
What appears to be the case is that this is the apparent situation. Yes.
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible. It is not permissible for her voice to be heard by men, for people to hear it through the radio. This is not permissible. This is an innovation. It is not found even in the radio stations of the entire world. It is not the case that women recite on the radio. This is something they are doing now on the Qur'an radio station here. Also on the general radio program. Ignorant people have innovated it.
So this is absolutely not permissible. They must be informed and told that this is not permissible. Yes, my brother, none of the radio stations in the Arab countries have women reciting, and this radio station is the most deserving of acting upon the Sunnah and not innovating anything that has no precedent in the Shari'ah. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب البكاء في الصلاة من خشية الله - تعالى - — islamhouse.com (59:54)
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