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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it said that raising the voice in dhikr after the prayer was the practice in the early days of Islam?

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The questioner : I mean, if it were said that this was the case in the early days of Islam, combining it with the statement of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He,
Call upon your Lord in humilityادْعُوا رَبَّكُمْ تَضَرُّعًا
[Al-A'raf 7:55]
and disbelief, then its apparent meaning is contradictory.

The Shaykh : You do not say this, nor do you see it as contradictory; I am certain of that.

The questioner : Shaykh, I asked one of the senior scholars, and he told me:

The Shaykh : This is a mistake, my brother. This is not du'a' (supplication); this is dhikr (remembrance of Allah). How can we say that this restricts that? Then, if we resort to such matters, many scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) resort to such matters, saying this was in the early period, which means that this is abrogated. Many scholars, when they are unable to reconcile the evidence, say that this is abrogated. This would imply that there are dozens of abrogated rulings in the Shari'ah, and this is a mistake, even though there is absolutely no contradiction in this issue. This is du'a' and this is dhikr.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 974 - 4600 هل يقال أن رفع الصوت بالذكر بعد الصلاة كان في أول الإسلام؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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