O Shaykh, may Allah reward you. As you mentioned, many people play the Qur'an in their homes and shops, but if the Qur'an is in a home and...
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The student: O Shaykh, may Allah reward you. As you mentioned, many people play the Qur'an in their homes and shops. But O Shaykh, if the Qur'an is in a home and its inhabitants do not habitually engage in idle talk, cursing, or swearing, but they might have side conversations, such as being in the kitchen or similar, and the Qur'an is on the radio broadcast, which sometimes has hadith and sometimes Qur'an, and they mean by this that they love the Qur'an and find comfort in it and benefit greatly from it, saying that if they do not play the Qur'an, distracting thoughts come to the person...
The Shaykh : ...does the explanation get long? Do they engage in idle talk in it or not?
The student: But they do not pay attention sometimes.
The Shaykh : Even the person who is reading, with the mushaf in front of him, does not pay attention sometimes. Sometimes he reads with his mouth, but his heart is not reading.
The student: Is the only prohibited thing idle talk?
The Shaykh : Idle talk, yes. The prohibited thing is if people are busy with their worldly affairs, cooking and frying, while the Qur'an is being recited. But for example, if a woman is cooking, making tea, or washing her clothes and listening to the Qur'an, that does not require her to be distracted from it. Yes.
The Shaykh : ...does the explanation get long? Do they engage in idle talk in it or not?
The student: But they do not pay attention sometimes.
The Shaykh : Even the person who is reading, with the mushaf in front of him, does not pay attention sometimes. Sometimes he reads with his mouth, but his heart is not reading.
The student: Is the only prohibited thing idle talk?
The Shaykh : Idle talk, yes. The prohibited thing is if people are busy with their worldly affairs, cooking and frying, while the Qur'an is being recited. But for example, if a woman is cooking, making tea, or washing her clothes and listening to the Qur'an, that does not require her to be distracted from it. Yes.