What is the validity of the claim that if the fetus hears the Qur'an while in its mother's womb, it will be quick to memorize the Qur'an?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: A message has spread among some women on mobile phones stating that if a woman is pregnant, she should play a recording of the Qur'an so that the fetus can hear it, and when it is born, it will be quick to memorize the Qur'an.
Answer:
What is the evidence for this? This is a claim with no evidence for it, and the fetus does not hear and does not know.[An-Nahl 16:78]
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: A message has spread among some women on mobile phones stating that if a woman is pregnant, she should play a recording of the Qur'an so that the fetus can hear it, and when it is born, it will be quick to memorize the Qur'an.
Answer:
What is the evidence for this? This is a claim with no evidence for it, and the fetus does not hear and does not know.
And Allah has extracted you from the wombs of your mothers not knowing a thing
وَاللَّهُ أَخْرَجَكُم مِّن بُطُونِ أُمَّهَاتِكُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ شَيْئًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2861 -3022] ما صحة القول: إن الجنين إذا سمع القرآن وهو في بطن أمه فإنه يكون سريع الحفظ للقرآن؟ — youtube.com
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