Traveling to Listen to the Recitation of an Imam with a Beautiful Voice
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The questioner:
Available to you, I mean regarding the ruling on listening to the recitation in the Fajr prayer, in the Jumu'ah prayer, and in the Fajr prayer of Friday, is that what you are asking about?
The Shaykh:
They direct them to follow the Sunnah, so they recite the surahs that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite on Friday and in the mosque.
The questioner:
And between the sin and the demand to follow the voices of the word, where the action covers a long distance for the prayer with the table until it is covered.
The Shaykh:
If the intention is merely to enjoy the voice, then this is not desirable. However, if the intention regarding this imam is that one feels reassured in his prayer and achieves prayer behind him with humility and tranquility, then there is no harm in a person seeking the most complete and best. But merely enjoying the voice wastes one's time, and one avoids the mosques and goes traveling far away. In fact, some people have reached the point of traveling just to pray behind him. This is an exaggeration; this is an exaggeration. Yes. And this may lead to extremism regarding this person; people will welcome him and pray behind him, and then the ignorant will exaggerate in his praise. Yes.
Available to you, I mean regarding the ruling on listening to the recitation in the Fajr prayer, in the Jumu'ah prayer, and in the Fajr prayer of Friday, is that what you are asking about?
The Shaykh:
They direct them to follow the Sunnah, so they recite the surahs that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite on Friday and in the mosque.
The questioner:
And between the sin and the demand to follow the voices of the word, where the action covers a long distance for the prayer with the table until it is covered.
The Shaykh:
If the intention is merely to enjoy the voice, then this is not desirable. However, if the intention regarding this imam is that one feels reassured in his prayer and achieves prayer behind him with humility and tranquility, then there is no harm in a person seeking the most complete and best. But merely enjoying the voice wastes one's time, and one avoids the mosques and goes traveling far away. In fact, some people have reached the point of traveling just to pray behind him. This is an exaggeration; this is an exaggeration. Yes. And this may lead to extremism regarding this person; people will welcome him and pray behind him, and then the ignorant will exaggerate in his praise. Yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب الاعتكاف وقيام رمضان — islamhouse.com (31:40)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.