What is the ruling on decorating and adorning mosques with Qur'anic verses and other things?

The Shaykh : It is reported in Sunan Abu Dawud, from the hadith of Ibn Abbas, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he said: . In reality, this hadith is one of the signs of his prophethood (peace be upon him), because we see now that people boast about building mosques. The point is: the narrator of the hadith, who is Ibn Abbas, as you know, says, commenting on the hadith: "You will certainly adorn them just as the Jews and Christians adorned them." And this, too, is something that has happened. When Ibn Abbas made this comment after narrating the hadith as marfu' (traced to the Prophet) (peace and blessings be upon him), he either heard it directly from him (peace be upon him), or he derived it by inference from other hadiths of the Messenger (peace be upon him), such as his saying (may Allah praise and bless him), in a hadith in al-Bukhari and others: that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . They said: "O Messenger of Allah, the Jews and Christians?!" He said: . So who are the people?! From here, if he did not take it as an explicit text, he took it by inference from this hadith when Ibn Abbas commented on his saying (peace be upon him): . Ibn Abbas said: "You will certainly adorn them just as the Jews and Christians adorned them." And unfortunately, now the mosques have become like churches, in terms of images and decorations, and even more than that. Crosses have entered many mosques in the name of decoration. It appears that those who engrave these engravings and create these decorations may be Christians, so they are sneaking their misguidance into our mosques, while we are unaware of it. Or they may be Muslims who know nothing of the rulings of the religion. This is what we mention regarding the decoration of mosques that you mentioned. So decoration is forbidden, and decorating with verses is more forbidden, because it distracts the worshippers. And it is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) hadiths, all of which prohibit there being anything in front of the worshipper that distracts him from his prayer. For example, when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed inside the Ka'bah, and the horns of the ram that our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) accepted as a ransom for Isma'il from being slaughtered were hung in it, the polytheists had inherited this, and the two horns were hung on the inner wall of the Ka'bah. So when the Messenger (peace be upon him) entered to pray, he ordered that the two horns be covered. He ordered that they be covered. Also, for example, in another hadith, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Aisha: or: . Also, when he prayed, he said (peace be upon him): . And in a narration: . It is a hanging cloth, green, white, and blue, and so on. : So anything that distracts should not be in a place where one prays. Anything that distracts, anything that distracts the worshipper from his prayer in his place of prayer, nothing of that should be there, let alone in the mosques that were built specifically for the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Okay. Anything else?

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