Ruling on Hanging Qur'anic Verses on Walls
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Honorable Shaykh! What is the ruling on hanging Qur'anic verses on the wall?The Shaykh: For what purpose do we hang Qur'anic verses on the wall?The questioner: For decoration.
The Shaykh: If it is for decoration, then one has taken the verses of Allah in mockery. How can the noble, great Qur'an, which was revealed as a healing for what is in the chests and as a lesson, be made into decoration on the walls?The questioner: for seeking blessing.
The Shaykh: Is there any report from the Salaf that they sought blessing through such a thing?
No, there is no report, and we are the Khalaf (the later generations); what sufficed the Salaf (the earliest generations) suffices us.
Give me a third purpose?The questioner: For remembrance.
The Shaykh: Do the people who sit in this place remember and read?Answer: No.
May Allah... except for a few, if there are any.
Give me the fourth?The questioner: To ward off the jinn.
The Shaykh: Is there any report that the Salaf ward off the jinn by such a means?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: No.
So how did this method escape the Salaf and open up for us?!! The reality is that this is the least we can say about it: It is a bid'ah (religious innovation), along with the type of desecration of the Qur'an involved in it; because it is written, for example, on the wall on a plaque or on the wall itself: [Al-Hujurat: 12] and you find the gathering full of backbiting. This is mockery. Therefore, advise every person you find who has hung verses on his walls, whether on the wall itself, on paper, or the like. Advise them against this.Say to your brother: The word of Allah is not to be used for this purpose. And similar to that is what we hear on telephones; when waiting, you hear the phone reciting the Qur'an. There is no god but Allah! Is the Qur'an used to fulfill a purpose? Then, a disbeliever, or one close to disbelief, may hear it and be greatly annoyed by hearing it, so you become the cause of the person's aversion to this noble Qur'an. Therefore, also advise those you hear reciting verses on their phone while waiting. Then, sometimes a record stops on a word from a previous conversation, and the record reads a cut-off verse from that point, whose beginning and connection to what came before it are unknown.
So, Glory be to You, O Allah, our Lord, and praise be to You. I testify that there is no god but You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to You in repentance.
The Shaykh: If it is for decoration, then one has taken the verses of Allah in mockery. How can the noble, great Qur'an, which was revealed as a healing for what is in the chests and as a lesson, be made into decoration on the walls?The questioner: for seeking blessing.
The Shaykh: Is there any report from the Salaf that they sought blessing through such a thing?
No, there is no report, and we are the Khalaf (the later generations); what sufficed the Salaf (the earliest generations) suffices us.
Give me a third purpose?The questioner: For remembrance.
The Shaykh: Do the people who sit in this place remember and read?Answer: No.
May Allah... except for a few, if there are any.
Give me the fourth?The questioner: To ward off the jinn.
The Shaykh: Is there any report that the Salaf ward off the jinn by such a means?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: No.
So how did this method escape the Salaf and open up for us?!! The reality is that this is the least we can say about it: It is a bid'ah (religious innovation), along with the type of desecration of the Qur'an involved in it; because it is written, for example, on the wall on a plaque or on the wall itself:
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وَلا يَغْتَبْ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضاًSo, Glory be to You, O Allah, our Lord, and praise be to You. I testify that there is no god but You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to You in repentance.