Discussion of innovations in mosques.

The Shaykh : And by the way, I say, with great regret, how evil creeps in little by little. I prayed Maghrib yesterday at al-Salania Mosque, and the employee there, who appears to be in a room behind the door, had the radio on. He was reciting the Qur'an to the farthest extent of the mosque... some of them think he is broadcasting the Noble Qur'an to the people. He does not know that this broadcast is incorrect. The point here is not that the Noble Qur'an has ended, and you know that our radio, which is not affected by the fatwas of our scholars who say it is not permissible to mix the Qur'an with musical instruments, broadcasts a musical piece after the Qur'an. So I heard this music while we were praying Maghrib from the middle of the mosque. This is a terrible thing. Also, pictures have started entering the mosques. How is that? First, a carpet or a "fatiasha" as they call it, and then pictures entered the mosques. These pictures are not made by hand but by machine. So, the picture taken by machine is permissible, and the picture made by hand is not permissible. It is as if the pictures taken by machine were not also made by hand. Put the machine there a million years ago, and do not extend your hand. You aim it toward the target and then press the button, and nothing will be taken for you at all. In any case, from here, misguidance began to creep into the mosques. You pray in a mosque and find a picture of the Ka'bah in front of you, with the circumambulators around the House. Yes, look at how evil proceeds. Initially, these people are not a phenomenon like what I give you, black, blue, and so on. But a time will come, unless Allah wills, that you will find the circumambulating people to be adults. You may find a picture of a king, for example, circumambulating alone with one or two guards, and so on. Evil proceeds little by little, so take heed.