Performing the iqamah over a loudspeaker: Is this not a form of cooperation in righteousness and piety? Perhaps a person might be sleeping?

The Shaykh : Yes

The questioner : Is this not a form of cooperation in righteousness and piety? A person might be sleeping when he hears the iqamah, or he might have one of the valid excuses, or it might be the Fajr prayer as well.

The Shaykh : And in the Fajr prayer, you are still saying in the second adhan: "Prayer is better than sleep."

The questioner : The second one.

The Shaykh : The second adhan.

The questioner : Yes, yes, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Fajr has two adhans: the first adhan is about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour before the Fajr prayer, at the latest. It is recommended that the mu'adhdhin... the second adhan is when the true dawn appears; at that time, the mu'adhdhin calls the adhan and says in this adhan, which is the second one relative to the first adhan in terms of the Shari'ah: "Prayer is better than sleep." O people, prayer is better than sleep, for those who are sleeping and those who have woken up. So what is the benefit of saying "prayer is better than sleep" in the second adhan? You know that the Sunnah is to hasten and not delay the Fajr prayer. This is a change to the Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), for in his time, "prayer is better than sleep" was said in the first adhan, and it was the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) who taught his mu'adhdhin Abu Mahdhura al-Makki this. You are now raising an objection, and this objection is the source of all innovations. All the innovations that we, if Allah wills, all deny, because they involve correcting the Wise Lawgiver. Why did not our Lord, through the tongue of His Prophet, make the iqamah like the adhan? Was He unaware? How can it be correct for us to say: "O Shaykh, there is a benefit in making the iqamah audible to people"? If our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) had intended that, He would have legislated it through the tongue of His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and would not have distinguished between the adhan and the iqamah. And I think you have not heard the hadith regarding the legitimacy of the adhan when you said that the person who saw the dream called the adhan from the top of a wall,
Was it?
And you heard that when he called the iqamah, he came down. You are now, whether you are the one saying this or you are reporting it from someone else, this is an error and it is not permissible to say it, because this legislation was based on this dream. The evidence is that when the dreamer came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and related the dream to him, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So Bilal used to call the adhan from the roof of the mosque, and he used to call the iqamah inside the mosque. How does it occur to the mind of a Muslim... but if the iqamah is called as the adhan is called, announcing the iqamah as the adhan is announced, there is a benefit for the one who is sleeping or inattentive. So: let us say, as they say in Sham: after the adhan, one of the people present in the mosque opens the window and says: "Prayer, O worshippers, prayer." And what did the one who called the adhan from the minaret do? And what is the benefit of that adhan? Is it not for announcement? So either we say that this is an innovation and that is the only Sunnah, or we say, no, this is a good innovation, because it involves informing the people. And in that is disbelief itself, if they knew, or if they remembered, because Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as we mentioned earlier, said: And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , and this discussion is actually a long one as well, related to the first question, I think, regarding the good and bad innovation, and whether there is a good and bad innovation, or is the matter as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said, without doubt or hesitation: .
We ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to teach us the Sunnah of our Prophet, to make us aware of its value and status, and to make us adhere to its limits and not transgress them into what people consider good or innovate. And this is sufficient, so go to the mosque.