Ruling on the use of an echo device in mosques
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The questioner: Your Eminence, in some mosques, in addition to the loudspeakers, there is a device called an echo device. However, the imams of the mosques differ in how they adjust this device. Some of them increase the repetition of the letters of the verse to two times or more, and this is more evident with the letters sin and sad. Others set the device to amplify the sound without repetition, so this does not affect the recitation of the Noble Qur'an. What is the ruling on using the first type, which repeats frequently, and what is your guidance for those who do so? Please note that the second type does not involve repetition of the letters. May Allah reward you with good.
As for the first type, which involves the repetition of letters, it is not permissible; because it leads to adding letters to the speech of Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
As for the second type, which involves only the amplification of the sound, it should be considered: if this leads to more humility, then there is nothing wrong with it; otherwise, leaving it is better. This is because people listening to the Qur'an without an intermediary is generally more conducive to humility. If a person becomes accustomed to not feeling humility unless he hears it through this sound, then when he recites the Qur'an alone, he will not achieve humility. Therefore, leaving it is better in both cases.
But the case that leads to the repetition of letters is forbidden; because it is not permissible for a person to add to the speech of Allah what is not part of it.
As for the first type, which involves the repetition of letters, it is not permissible; because it leads to adding letters to the speech of Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
As for the second type, which involves only the amplification of the sound, it should be considered: if this leads to more humility, then there is nothing wrong with it; otherwise, leaving it is better. This is because people listening to the Qur'an without an intermediary is generally more conducive to humility. If a person becomes accustomed to not feeling humility unless he hears it through this sound, then when he recites the Qur'an alone, he will not achieve humility. Therefore, leaving it is better in both cases.
But the case that leads to the repetition of letters is forbidden; because it is not permissible for a person to add to the speech of Allah what is not part of it.