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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the guidance for one who recites from seventy to one hundred verses in the Fajr prayer?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I am the imam of a mosque and I lead the congregation in the Fajr prayer early. Yes, I am the imam of a mosque and I lead the congregation in the Fajr prayer early, and I lengthen the recitation to about sixty verses from the end of the Qur'an. Many of the mosque's congregation tell me to start the prayer before the dawn breaks, and to make the interval between the adhan and the iqamah fifteen minutes. He says: So what do you advise us regarding this?

Answer:
If the adhan is at the correct time, then you delay it by the amount needed: fifteen minutes, half an hour, or a third of an hour, depending on the need of the congregation. But if the adhan is before the time, do not pray upon it. It is permissible to call the adhan for Fajr before the time to wake the people, but the obligatory prayer is not performed upon it until the dawn breaks, until the dawn breaks.
As for your recitation of sixty, seventy, or up to one hundred verses, this is what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did. But recitation varies; some people recite five verses and it tires you out. He drags it out, repeats, and breaks it up, like the recitation of some of those who are learning the Qur'an now; they are learning and do not know. It is like the crow that walks with the gait of the hoopoe, then leaves its gait and is lost between the two. So recitation varies; one person recites one hundred verses and you do not feel it and do not get bored of his recitation, rather you wish it would be longer. And here is one who recites five verses and you die from listening to him. So recitation...
You must observe the rules of recitation, and you must also not burden the ma'mumin (those praying behind the imam). You recite a moderate and good recitation, and that is fine, but it must be moderate. Some people exaggerate in the madd (elongation), exaggerate in the ghunnah (nasalization), and exaggerate in the rules of tajwid until they burden the ma'mumin and do not complete the verse. He is unable, like the barren plant that cuts neither the earth nor remains on the surface.
He cuts the verse and stops, then repeats it a second time. This is like the barren plant that cuts neither the earth nor remains on the surface. The best of things are their middles, O my brothers. Yes, beautify the Qur'an, adorn the Qur'an with your voices and your recitation, improve the delivery. Make the people yearn for it. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [18 -582] ما التوجيه لمن يقرأ بالسبعين آية إلى المائة في صلاة الفجر؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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