What is the ruling on reciting verses with tartil (measured recitation) when citing them in a sermon or exhortation?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who exhorts the people and reminds them of Allah, and during that, he mentions some verses from the Book of Allah and recites them with tartil, whether in a lecture, an exhortation, or the Friday sermon?
Answer:
This is not prescribed. The scholars and the Salaf did not do this; they only cited the verses. There is a difference between recitation and citing a verse. Citing a verse is done with its wording, without tartil. Because this burdens the listeners and makes them forget the topic. And it turns the speaker from a preacher into a reciter of the Qur'an, and the sermon is interrupted by this. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who exhorts the people and reminds them of Allah, and during that, he mentions some verses from the Book of Allah and recites them with tartil, whether in a lecture, an exhortation, or the Friday sermon?
Answer:
This is not prescribed. The scholars and the Salaf did not do this; they only cited the verses. There is a difference between recitation and citing a verse. Citing a verse is done with its wording, without tartil. Because this burdens the listeners and makes them forget the topic. And it turns the speaker from a preacher into a reciter of the Qur'an, and the sermon is interrupted by this. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [704 -858] ما حكم ترتيل الآيات عند الاستشهاد بها في الخطبة أو الوعظ؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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