The ruling on turning on the loudspeakers in the mosque minaret.
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The Shaykh : Likewise, the people in the houses who are praying in their homes, and this microphone, yes, the speaker in the minaret disturbs the person praying in his house. There are people in the houses who are sick, who may have stayed up all night and prayed Fajr after the time for Fajr had entered, and then they slept. This microphone comes and disturbs them, and they cannot sleep. Is this not a harm to the Muslims? Yes, and the one who obligated the exaltation of this house is the one who [also] prohibits harm. Many people complain about this. And it is amazing that this issue is explicitly stated in the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). It is not from the opinions of people; it is stated in the Sunnah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to his Companions while they were reciting, each one raising his voice, and he said: . So there is no need to raise the voice, and the evidence from this is his saying: Sunan Abi Dawud 1332Sahih (Al-Albani). The hadith is authentic; Ibn 'Abd al-Barr and others authenticated it. So if we have a text from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), how do we act according to our opinions and desires? Then, I do not find any benefit in raising the voice from the minaret. What is the benefit? I will tell you the benefit. The benefit is that the lazy man stays in his house until there is only one rak'ah left in the prayer, then he goes out and says, "Get up, O man, pray." He says, "The imam is standing, the imam is reciting, be patient." This is the benefit. A great benefit, or not great? On the contrary, this is a harm that causes lazy people to stay in their houses.
There is also a second benefit: that if a person is facing the mosque and hears the imam near the end of the recitation, he goes running fast. And this is a benefit in that the person disobeys the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) where he said:Bulugh al-Maram 2:329. And this is faster. And this is a benefit, or not a benefit? Yes? An inverted benefit. This is an inverted benefit. So raising the voice from the minarets for the prayer is a harm without a doubt, and a disobedience to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) without a doubt. The hadith is authentic, and there is no benefit. For this reason, I call upon my brothers not to follow desires and to look at the evidence. If they followed their desires, every person would have a madhhab. Every person would have a path. The obligatory thing is to follow the Sunnah. And I have now cited an authentic hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he made raising the voice, which entails disturbance, what? A form of harm. So we ask Allah to guide our brothers.
Do not harm one another in your recitation, for every person who is praying is conversing with his Lord.
لا يؤذين بعضكم بعضا في القراءة فإن كل مصلي يناجي ربهOne should not trouble the other
لا يؤذين بعضكم بعضاThere is also a second benefit: that if a person is facing the mosque and hears the imam near the end of the recitation, he goes running fast. And this is a benefit in that the person disobeys the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) where he said:
