What is the decree of listening to the Quran?
- Is it permissible to listen to the Quran by lying down? Is it necessary to sit while listening to the Quran?
- I have chapters of the Quran in MP3 format. What is the difference between listening to the Quran from a person and from the computer etc. in MP3 format in terms of appropriateness and thawab?
- Will it be all right if one lies down while listening to the Quran in MP3 format?
Dear Brother / Sister,
If a person reads the Quran aloud and if we hear it, it is fard to listen to it and to keep silent. It is not permissible to be busy with anything else at that time. However, it is not fard to listen to the Quran recited on television, computer, radio, etc. For, it is not direct human voice. It is a reflection from a device in which human voice is recorded. However, one gets thawabs when he listens to the Quran like that too. (see Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır, al-Araf, interpretation of verse 204)
Accordingly, it is understood that one gains more thawabs when he listens to the Quran directly from a person.
It is fard al-kifaya to listen to the Quran when it is read aloud. Therefore, if some of the congregation listens to it, it will be enough. If there is only one person near the person who is reading the Quran, he has to listen to him; otherwise, he will be a sinner. However, if that person has started to perform a prayer, he has to continue performing the prayer; he will not be held responsible for not listening to the Quran in that case.
The degree of the thawab changes based on the intention of the person who reads or listens to the Quran, sincerity, avoiding sins, paying attention to worship, and obeying the orders of the Quran. From this point of view, we think it will be useful to pay attention to those points instead of saying this or that has more thawabs. Besides, it is not always possible to listen to the Quran from a person. Therefore, it is necessary to benefit from devices like computers and MP3 players and to make use of them.
It is sunnah for a person who wants to read or listen to the Quran to make wudu and to sit by turning toward the qiblah. Ishaq bin Ibrahim states the following: I heard Abu Abdullah read the chapter of al-Kahf on the way to the mosque. Hz. Aisha states the following:
"I would read the Quran lying down on my sofa." (Mughni, I/803)
Since it is permissible to read the Quran while lying down, it is definitely permissible to listen to the Quran from MP3 players, computers and televisions.
- Is it fard, wajib or sunnah to listen to the Quran according to Hanafi, Shafii and other madhhabs?
Questions on Islam
- Is it necessary to listen to the Quran until it ends when it is listened from TV and radio? Is it a sin to change the channel when the Quran is broadcast? Is it permissible to listen to the Quran while working?
- Is it permissible to be busy with something while the Quran is recited?
- Do we receive thawabs when we listen to the meaning (translation) of the Quran? Can we listen to the meaning of the Quran without wudu?
- What is the decree about eating and drinking something while the Quran is being recited?
- Does reading the Quran or listening to it gain man more thawabs? It is said that it is sunnah to read the Quran and it is fard to listen to it. Is it true?
- Is it permissible to greet (to say salam alaykum) and to answer the greeting while adhan is being called?
- Is it fard, wajib or sunnah to listen to the Quran according to Hanafi, Shafii and other madhhabs?
- Does a person get thawab (reward) when he does something that is sunnah without being aware of it?
- Is sunnah not fard in a sense? Allah orders us to follow the Prophet (pbuh) in many places in the Quran.
- Is a person who can read the Qoran regarded to have done a khatm (complete recitation of the Qoran) by observing and following someone recite it, or a person who cannot read the Qoran by listening to someone recite it? Is a person regarded to have done a
