Is it permissible to respond to a melodized adhan? (Is it permissible to respond to the mu'adhdhin, or is the greeting of the mosque prescribed for one who enters during the second adhan on Friday while the khatib is on the minbar?)

The questioner : I heard it reported from you that you said: The adhan currently present in the capital is such that it is not permissible to respond to it, because... That is what I heard, and based on that, I wanted to get a ruling from you.The Shaykh .

The Shaykh : This is a good question. We say: If the adhan is melodized, as is the case with most of the adhanat we hear, then it is not prescribed according to the known Shari'ah to respond to it. In fact, this is a point of precision, and I hope you will pay attention to it. We often observe some of the brothers and others entering the mosque on Friday while this unified adhan, which contradicts the Sunnah of tawhid, is being called. The person entering the mosque stands there while the khatib is on the minbar, waiting until he responds to the mu'adhdhin and finishes his response, and then he begins the greeting of the mosque. Unless he is one of those misled people who think there is a sunnah prayer before the Friday prayer, which they claim. The mere fact that the adhan ends and the khatib stands up to begin the khutbah, and he begins with what? With the greeting, at best, or with the pre-Friday sunnah prayer. This is a mistake. If a person enters the mosque on Friday while the khatib is on the minbar and the adhan is being called, he should not occupy himself with responding to the mu'adhdhin, even if his adhan is lawful. Why? Because responding to the mu'adhdhin is a recommended practice (sunnah)... Even if the adhan were prescribed, it is not befitting for him to wait for the mu'adhdhin to finish his adhan and then begin the greeting. Why? Because responding to the mu'adhdhin is a recommended matter, the greeting is obligatory, and listening to the khatib is also obligatory. Therefore, he must not occupy himself with the recommended matter at the expense of the obligatory one. What is the obligatory matter that he would be neglecting by responding to the mu'adhdhin? It is his availability to listen to the khatib's sermon, because by the amount of time he waits in responding to the adhan, he will take from the time of listening to the khatib. So, if a person enters the mosque on Friday while the imam is on the minbar waiting for the adhan to finish so he can begin the khutbah, then this person, as soon as he enters the mosque, should begin the greeting so that he can be free afterwards to listen to the khatib's sermon from its beginning to its end. And this leads me to another point of caution, which is to lighten the greeting as it came in the well-known hadith, and to be brief in it; because the goal of this command to be brief is to free this person to listen. So, he should not delay in responding to the mu'adhdhin from beginning the prayer of the greeting. Do you have anything else?

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : And to you.

The questioner : Our teacher, at this moment, he is praying so that he can be free to listen to the khutbah, and the mu'adhdhin is calling the adhan. The mu'adhdhin, of course, in our mosques now calls the adhan over speakers, and they are loud. It may disturb this praying person. Is it not more appropriate to delay his prayer until the mu'adhdhin finishes, then he prays and is brief, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed?

The Shaykh : This statement is correct, and it is not correct. It is correct if there were no khutbah. Would not the khutbah also disturb him? And the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .