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Is it permissible to hire reciters to collectively recite the Qur’an at occasions such as the aqiqah, given that they take money and supplicate by specific names in front of attendees, thereby involving showing off, and what is the ruling on accepting invitations to these occasions?

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It has been previously clarified that reciting the Quran on the occasions mentioned in Fatwa no. 35617 is considered an innovation (bid'ah).

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