Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

mentally disordered person or a junub person or a woman to call
the Azân. In such a case, the Azân will have to be reperformed by
the muazzin. [It yields plenty of thawâb to perform the Mawlid, to
have it performed, and to go to a place to listen to the Mawlid being
performed there. However, it is harâm for a woman to let nâmahram
men hear her voice by performing the Mawlid or the Azân
or by singing or by talking more loudly than needed, and for (nâmahram)
men to listen to her. A woman (who is to perform such
acts of worship) should do so only among other women, and then
she mustn’t tape or record her voice or let it be broadcast through
radio or television programs.] Although it is makrûh also for a man
sitting or without an ablution, or for one riding an animal (such as
a horse) within an urban area, to call the Azân, an Azân performed
by one of them will not have to be reperformed. The Azân is
performed on a minaret or (anywhere directly) outside (of) the
mosque. It is not performed inside the mosque. It is makrûh to
perform it in a manner called ‘telhîn’, i.e. by chanting melodiously
and prolonging the syllables so as to distort the words. The Azân is
not performed in any language other than Arabic.” It is stated in
the book entitled Fatâwâ-i-Hindiyya: “It is makrûh for a muazzin
to shout so loud as to exhaust himself (as he performs the Azân).
Ibni ’Âbidîn ‘rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ’ states: “It is sunnat for the
muazzin to mount an elevated place to perform the Azân so that it
should be heard at distant places. It is permissible for more than
one muazzins to perform the Azân together.” As is understood
from these scholarly passages, it is bid’at to perform the Azân or
the Iqâmat or to conduct a namâz (in jamâ’at) by using a loudspeaker.
And it is gravely sinful to commit a bid’at. A hadîth-isherîf
reads: “If a person commits a bid’at, none of his acts of
worship will be acceptable.” Although a voice heard from a loudspeaker
is quite similar to the human voice, it is not the human
voice itself. It is a sound produced by pieces moved by magnetism.
It is not the voice of a person standing on an elevated platform. The
sin becomes doubled when they place the loud-speaker on the right
or left or back side of the minaret or roof, so that the voice does not
come out in the direction of Qibla. It is not necessary, on the other
hand, for the voice to reach distant places or for us to stand the
shrill metallic screaming of the loud-speaker. For, it is wâjib to
build a mosque in every quarter. Thereby the Azân will be
performed in every quarter and a quarter’s Azân will be heard from
all its residences. Moreover, the Azân-i-jawq is something
permissible. More than one muazzins’ calling the same azân
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