Listening to the Qur'an before sleep, or during study, or while occupied
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Some people listen to the Qur'an before sleep, or for example during study or while occupied with work. Is this among the etiquettes, and what is its ruling?
This is not among the etiquettes. It is not among the etiquettes to recite the Book of Allah, even via a tape, while you are inattentive to it.By the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He): [Al-A'raf: 20] Therefore, we say: if you are free to listen to it, then listen; and if you are occupied, do not turn it on. For this reason, we see that it is an error, though its owner intends good by it, what we hear when connecting to the telephone,So he says: for example, wait, and you hear the Qur'an, as if the Qur'an came for a meaning other than itself, a word came for a meaning, in order to make people wait. The Qur'an is more noble and more honorable than to make it something that waits for something else. And were it not that the intention of these people is a good intention,We would say: they would be sinful. On the contrary, there are people when you call them and say, I want such and such, I want so-and-so, they play music for you,I seek forgiveness from Allah! That is: as if they want to direct people to listening to what is forbidden.And they have no excuse if they say: This is how it was done, yes.
The disbelievers do not see any harm in this; because disbelief is in reality greater than this, and praise be to Allah. This cannot function except by being connected to electricity, is that not so? It is possible to disconnect, open the machine and cut the tape that is connected to the music, and it ends. So what do I put?I say: Put the word "wait," a word that matches reality and is useful to the listener. After thirty seconds or something like that, wait, and so on.
The thing that is not from the Qur'an may be useful. Why? Because perhaps a ruling on an issue comes, and then the connection starts before the conditions are complete, so the listener understands it as having no conditions, and harm occurs. Likewise, the ruling, the ruling may have a connection before the wisdom is complete, and its end may be related to its beginning. The word "wait" has no sin and is useful.
Some people say to me: He does not sleep except while listening to the Qur'an. If that is the case, there is no harm if he is lying down waiting for sleep and has no work, so he listens to this, there is no harm. And whoever seeks help by listening to the words of Allah, regarding what a person wants from permissible matters, there is no harm, there is no obstacle.
This is not among the etiquettes. It is not among the etiquettes to recite the Book of Allah, even via a tape, while you are inattentive to it.By the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He):
So when the Qur'an is recited, then listen to it and pay attention
وَإِذَا قُرِئَ الْقُرْآنُ فَاسْتَمِعُوا لَهُ وَأَنْصِتُواThe disbelievers do not see any harm in this; because disbelief is in reality greater than this, and praise be to Allah. This cannot function except by being connected to electricity, is that not so? It is possible to disconnect, open the machine and cut the tape that is connected to the music, and it ends. So what do I put?I say: Put the word "wait," a word that matches reality and is useful to the listener. After thirty seconds or something like that, wait, and so on.
The thing that is not from the Qur'an may be useful. Why? Because perhaps a ruling on an issue comes, and then the connection starts before the conditions are complete, so the listener understands it as having no conditions, and harm occurs. Likewise, the ruling, the ruling may have a connection before the wisdom is complete, and its end may be related to its beginning. The word "wait" has no sin and is useful.
Some people say to me: He does not sleep except while listening to the Qur'an. If that is the case, there is no harm if he is lying down waiting for sleep and has no work, so he listens to this, there is no harm. And whoever seeks help by listening to the words of Allah, regarding what a person wants from permissible matters, there is no harm, there is no obstacle.