Is it permissible to perform Dhikr in communal sessions aloud, or is it restricted to a low communal voice, along with a clarification of the Sharʿī ruling?
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If people gather for the remembrance of Allah, it is permissible for them, whether their remembrance is collective or individual, as long as it is not adopted as a regular practice or associated with a -prohibited act. However, committing to gathering for remembrance in one voice in public places like mosques, and treating it as a ritual, is an innovated bid‘ah, because it suggests that it is a or an obligation, and this is not supported by Sharia.
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