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What is the legal ruling on a school system that includes a communal recitation of Al-Fatiḥah, performing the royal salute and the national anthem with music, a broadcast segment presenting Prophetic حديث (sayings) or national anthems or wisdom, and physical exercises?

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Regularly reciting Al-Fatiha in unison and with one voice during the school assembly is an added innovation (bid'ah idafiyyah), because it involves adherence to a specific manner and form that has not been mentioned in the . As for standing before the flag to sing the national anthem, and the musical instruments accompanying it, its ruling and prohibition have already been explained in previous fatwas.

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