Reciting the Qur’an Aloud in a Group Without Listening to One Another

Question

Several people, sitting in one place, recite the Qur’an aloud without one listening to another — is this correct or not? A certain local scholar declares this manner correct, whereas [in my view] reciting the Qur’an in this way is not correct, since the scholars of truth have forbidden it. What is the ruling?

Answer

The best course is that everyone recite quietly, one after another, so that one person’s voice does not clash with another’s and the duty of listening to the recitation is not placed upon anyone in particular. But if they do recite aloud, then according to one opinion this too is permitted: when a person is himself occupied with his own recitation and is not listening to…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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