What is the ruling of reading Quran in congregation?

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Ash-Shaykh Zayd al-Madhkali, may Allah have mercy upon him, was asked the following question,

:أحسنالله إليكم, يقول السّائل من فرنسا:ما حكم قراءة القرآن جماعة؟

The Question: What is the ruling of reading Quran in congregation?

الشيخ:قراءة القرآن جماعة, إن كان المعلّم يعلّمهم ويلقّنهم, يقرأ بصوته وهم يتبعونه منأجل الإتقان و الحفظ و عدم اللّحن, فلاحرج.

The Answer: “Reading the Quran in congregation;  if it is a teacher teaching them Quran and making them say it after him, such as he reads with his voice while they follow him for the purpose of perfection and memorization and in order not to error then there is no problem.”

أمّا إذا كانوا بدون ذلك,يجلسون جماعة,ثمّ يقرؤون بصوت واحد,مطلع واحد وموقف واحد فهذا من البدع الصّوفية,لا يقلّدون فيها,ولا يجوز هذا العمل,عمل بدعة.

“As for if it doesn’t include of that , whereas they sit together then they read with one voice,  with the same starting point and ending point, then this is from the innovations of the sufis, they shouldn’t be blind-followed in it nor is this action permissible, it is an act of innovation”

Reference: ad-Durar al-Bahiyyah , tape (2).

حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ

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Surah At-Takathur, Verse 1:
أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ

The mutual rivalry for piling up of worldly things diverts you,

Verse 2:
حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ

Until you visit the graves (i.e. till you die).

Verse 3:
كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ

Nay! You shall come to know!

Verse 4:
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ

Again, Nay! You shall come to know!

Verse 5:
كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ الْيَقِينِ

Nay! If you knew with a sure knowledge (the end result of piling up, you would not have occupied yourselves in worldly things)

(English – Mohsin Khan)

IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO PENETRATE THE ROWS…

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IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO PENETRATE THE ROWS UNTIL THE FIRST ROW – SHAIKH SAALIH AL-FAWZAAN

Question: There are some people who do not attend the prayer except late and then they penetrate the rows until the first row becomes crowded and they have little respect for those who preceded them. So is their action permissible and what is your advice to them?

Answer: It behooves the Muslims to have concern in the rows of the prayer and completing the first row then the next and closing the gaps and spaces between them as the Prophet sallahu alayhi wa salam directed to that. As for what the questioner mentioned of people penetrating the rows until the first row, then this is if there is in the first row a gap not filled. Therefore, there is no blame on these people for penetrating to it because the one in these rows did not fill the gap and they dropped their right and left off an affair obligatory upon them. So those who penetrate towards the first row and fill it are rewarded in that because they walk to a gap in the row to fill it.
If the intent is that these people enter between the congregants and there is not a gap and they only enter it to bother the congregants and create a gap that is not present, then this is not allowed. It is not allowed because in this is disturbance of the congregants and busying the congregants. And in it is stepping over the necks of the people without justification.
[Taken from: Noor ‘ala Darb Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan pg. 105-106]

Translated by

Faisal ibn Abdul Qaadir ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

Inform those whom you love for the sake of Allah -Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhali

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In the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

Inform those whom you love for the sake of Allah

By Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhali may Allah have mercy on him

Al-Miqdam ibn Ma’di Karib reported that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said,

إِذَا أَحَبَّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَخَاهُ فَلْيُعْلِمْهُ أَنَّهُ أَحَبَّهُ

“When one of you has love for his brother, he should inform him that he loves him.” [Bukhari – Book of Manners #542]

The Shaykh comments on this narration in his explanation of al-Adab al-Mufrad by Imaam Bukhari on page 137-139 Vol 2. He said,

This narration gives guidance to the Muslim [male and female] that when he [or she] loves his brother [or her sister] for the sake of Allah then he [or she] should inform him [or her] of that. This is good mannerisms between the believers. Loving for the sake of Allah means that the believers love each…

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Every man, that Day, will have enough to make him careless of others…

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Surah Abasa, Verse 33:
فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الصَّاخَّةُ

Then, when there comes As-Sakhkhah (the Day of Resurrection’s second blowing of Trumpet),

Verse 34:
يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ الْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ

That Day shall a man flee from his brother,

Verse 35:
وَأُمِّهِ وَأَبِيهِ

And from his mother and his father,

Verse 36:
وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَبَنِيهِ

And from his wife and his children.

Verse 37:
لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ

Every man, that Day, will have enough to make him careless of others.

(English – Mohsin Khan)

… then he does not pray tahiyyatul Masjid…

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Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen rahimahullah said:

“As for the one who exits from the masjid then returns soon, then he does not pray tahiyyatul Masjid because he did not leave with a leaving that is interrupted. So like this it was not reported from the Messenger sallahu alayhi wa salam that when he exited to go to his house for a need and he was in ‘Itikaaf then returned that he prayed two rakat. Also, this exiting is not considered exiting by the evidence that it does not break the Itikaaf of the one in Itikaaf. If his exiting is considered separating from the masjid, then his itikaaf would be broken. So like this, if a person exited from the masjid with an intention not to return except for the following obligatory prayer, then after taking some steps he returns to speak to another person even after half a minute, then this one prays two rakat because he left with the intention of leaving that is interrupted/suspended”

[Majmoo al-Fatawa wa Rasaail (14/352)]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan