“It is obligatory upon him (i.e. the ruler) to prohibit recitation of tenths of the Qurʾān, or other units, out loud (i.e. in unison) whilst the people wait for the commencement of Jumuʿah prayer, or any other obligatory prayers. This is due to the fact that this is something the…

“And it is incumbent upon him (i.e. the ruler) to prevent what the people have introduced by shaking hands after the Fajr, ʿAṣr and Jumuʿah prayers. It is to such an extent that today some of them even do it after all of the five prayers. All of this is…

Aḥmad Ibn Yaḥyá al-Winsharīsī narrated a fatwá in his al-Miʿyār al-Muʿrab wal-Jāmiʿ al-Maghrib ʿan Fatāwī ʿUlamāʾ Ifrīqiyyah wal-Andalus wal-Maghrib (2/485) under the heading ‘The Innovation of Calling Out to Listen Before the Start of the Khuṭbah of Jumuʿah Was Done in Tilmasān, and Not in Fez’, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh…

He mentioned after stating that it is not permissible to raise graves more than what is necessary so as to indicate that it is a grave, “However, with regards to building it very high, similar to what the People of Ignorance (al-Jāhiliyah) would do as a way of exalting or…

“These gatherings of ‘dhikr’ are in reality gatherings which Allāh has prohibited the People of Bidʿah from: these ‘Fuqarāʾ’ (i.e. the poor ones, which is a name Ṣufīs refer to themselves with) who claim that they traverse the path of Taṣawwuf. It is rare that you find one of them…