What is your opinion on including competitions in lecture tapes?
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The questioner : I say, Honorable Shaykh, I am the imam of a mosque and I intend to launch a project. I am consulting you about it. What is your opinion on including some competitions in some of the lecture tapes on the rulings of Ramadan and other matters, where I distribute the tape and then place questions on it? What is your opinion of this?
The Shaykh : A mosque was built recently.
The questioner : He says: I am the imam of a mosque and I intend to launch a project. I am consulting you about it. What is your opinion on including some competitions?
The Shaykh : Yes. This requires reflection and consideration. It is good, sound, and beneficial in itself, but I fear that it may develop and that other competitions may be introduced into it. Because a person cannot judge the future, therefore a person must be cautious in such matters. So the issue requires reflection and consideration, and perhaps the questioner, if Allah wills, will agree on it at another time.
The Shaykh : A mosque was built recently.
The questioner : He says: I am the imam of a mosque and I intend to launch a project. I am consulting you about it. What is your opinion on including some competitions?
The Shaykh : Yes. This requires reflection and consideration. It is good, sound, and beneficial in itself, but I fear that it may develop and that other competitions may be introduced into it. Because a person cannot judge the future, therefore a person must be cautious in such matters. So the issue requires reflection and consideration, and perhaps the questioner, if Allah wills, will agree on it at another time.
Source
اللقاءات الرمضانية لعام 1416هـ - 1 — binothaimeen.net (52:49)
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