What is the ruling on reciting the Qur'an in a group, where each person individually recites a specific portion with an audible voice?
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The Shaykh : Anyone else?
The questioner : We are in agreement on this question. What is the ruling on recitation when they are reciting in a group, but each person recites a specific portion, for example, from the Qur'an?
The Shaykh : If one person recites with one voice and there is no objection, the others listen. One recites and the others listen, then it is the second person's turn, is that not so?
The questioner : No, pardon me. My intention was, for example, that I recite a quarter of Surah Ya-Sin, another recites a quarter of Surah Maryam, and another recites a quarter of Surah Al-A'raf?
The Shaykh : That is what we are discussing.
The questioner : No, I mean each person at the same time. Each person recites. I mean, it is not that one recites and the other three listen to him; rather, each person recites?
The Shaykh : At the same time?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, is it silently or aloud?
The questioner : I mean with a voice.
The Shaykh : If it is silently, there is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : I cannot hear if I stop to listen to his recitation.
The Shaykh : No, it is not permissible. This causes confusion, and I heard the hadith just now:As-Sunan al-Kubra lil-Nasa'i 59:118. So, if each of us takes a portion and recites it silently to himself, there is no objection. This falls under the category of one companion saying to his companion: "Sit with us so we may believe for a while," meaning we increase in faith through the remembrance of Allah. So, if the recitation is silent: you recite and your companion next to you recites, and neither of you disturbs the other, there is no objection. But raising the voice is not permissible. Yes.
The questioner : The scenario you mentioned!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : We are in agreement on this question. What is the ruling on recitation when they are reciting in a group, but each person recites a specific portion, for example, from the Qur'an?
The Shaykh : If one person recites with one voice and there is no objection, the others listen. One recites and the others listen, then it is the second person's turn, is that not so?
The questioner : No, pardon me. My intention was, for example, that I recite a quarter of Surah Ya-Sin, another recites a quarter of Surah Maryam, and another recites a quarter of Surah Al-A'raf?
The Shaykh : That is what we are discussing.
The questioner : No, I mean each person at the same time. Each person recites. I mean, it is not that one recites and the other three listen to him; rather, each person recites?
The Shaykh : At the same time?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, is it silently or aloud?
The questioner : I mean with a voice.
The Shaykh : If it is silently, there is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : I cannot hear if I stop to listen to his recitation.
The Shaykh : No, it is not permissible. This causes confusion, and I heard the hadith just now:
Do not raise your voices over one another in recitation.
لا يجهَرْ بعضُكم على بعضٍ في القراءةThe questioner : The scenario you mentioned!
The Shaykh: Yes.
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