Shabina (the Recitation of the Whole Qur’an in One Night) over a Loudspeaker

Question

In some regions of India the Noble Qur’an is completed in a single night in nafl prayer in congregation. However, the discerning people of knowledge in our province have begun to hold gatherings for the completion (khatm) of the Noble Qur’an in the manner of sermon gatherings, so that people acquire a zeal for memorizing the Qur’an and the memory of the huffaz also becomes firm.

Answer

Reciting the Noble Qur’an and listening to it is the best of the acts that draw one near to Allah; even the angels come to listen to it, and countless mercies of Allah descend (?). The zeal to preserve the Noble Qur’an [in memory] and the urge to make it firm are without doubt a blessed zeal and a blessed urge.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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