What is your eminence’s opinion regarding the permissibility of performing or distributing a leaflet titled “A Minute of Your Life,” which includes the virtue of utilizing a single minute in numerous righteous deeds, such as reciting Al-Fatihah 7 times, Al-Ikhlas 20 times, saying “La ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika lahu, lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu, wa huwa ‘ala kulli shai’in qadeer” 20 times, “Subhanallah wa bihamdih” 100 times, “Subhanallah wa bihamdih, Subhanallahil Azeem” 50 times, “Subhanallah, walhamdulillah, wa la ilaha illallah, wallahu akbar” more than 18 times, “La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah” more than 40 times, “La ilaha illallah” 50 times, and sending blessings upon the Prophet 50 times, in addition to deeds such as maintaining kinship ties, supplicating, offering advice, greeting, interceding, comforting the distressed, removing harm, and reading two pages from a beneficial book?
The multiplication of the reward for certain dhikr (remembrances of God) by repeating them is based on the principle of the reward being multiplied with the repetition of a prescribed act. Thus, every increase in a prescribed act leads to an increase in reward. However, if repetition leads to violating a specific textual religious injunction that sets a particular number for a certain dhikr, then repetition is not prescribed; rather, one should limit oneself to what is explicitly mentioned. This is because increasing without evidence is an innovation (bid'ah). It is permissible to repeat the aforementioned dhikr with the hope of multiplying the reward, provided that no specific time or number is designated for it, such as the dhikr "There is no god but Allah, alone without partner...", "sending blessings upon the Prophet," "asking for al-Wasilah," and repeating the recitation of Surah Al-Fatiha.
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