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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on hanging verses or hadiths on cars and the like

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Question:
The questioner: What is the ruling on hanging some of the Qur'anic verses, or the Prophetic hadiths, or the established dhikr (remembrance of Allah) on the back of a car for the purpose of reminding people of them?

Answer:
These hangings can be understood in two ways. The first is that they make them a protection from the evil eye and from calamities, and this is not permissible. This is not permissible; it falls under the category of amulets (tamimah). It becomes an amulet. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
spells, charms and love-potions are polytheismان الرقى والتمائم والتوله شرك
Sunan Abi Dawud 3883Sahih (Al-Albani)
And in another hadith:
The other hadith: Whoever hangs an amulet, Allah will not complete [his affair] for him.الاخر مَنْ عَلَّقَ تَمِيمَةً فَلا أَتَمَّ اللَّهُ لَهُ.
Sunan al-Bayhaqi 17:557

And in a third hadith, it is said that whoever hangs an amulet has committed shirk (associating partners with Allah). This is the meaning. The second meaning is that, as the questioner mentioned, they hang them for the sake of dhikr and reminding. This is something the Salaf (the earliest generations) did not do, and they were more eager than we are for reminding and teaching. They did not write the Qur'an on walls or on their mounts, as they did not do this because they knew that the Qur'an is too exalted for such things and is preserved. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1011- 4717] حكم تعليق آيات أو أحاديث على السيارات ونحوها - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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