What is the ruling on turning off the air conditioner, or closing the door, or the clock’s alarm during the Friday sermon? Is it idle talk, like the one who touches pebbles?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, is turning off the air conditioner, turning off the clock’s alarm, and closing the door during the Friday sermon analogous to the hadith: Sunan Ibn Majah 1025Sahih (Darussalam)?
The Shaykh : No, if this is causing distraction and a person gets up to turn it off, he is rewarded and doing good. This is unlike the one who touches pebbles. By pebbles, it is meant that the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) mosque was...
Whoever smoothes the pebbles, then he has engaged in Laghw.
من مس الحصى فقد لغاThe Shaykh : No, if this is causing distraction and a person gets up to turn it off, he is rewarded and doing good. This is unlike the one who touches pebbles. By pebbles, it is meant that the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) mosque was...