# Mosque Loudspeakers, Ibn Uthaymeen’s Fatwa and the Sahwa Movement

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118342004304122086
- Source account: [@mfylzb395088](https://x.com/mfylzb395088)
- Source language: Arabic
- Target language: English
- Duration: 4:41
- Published: 2026-11-05
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement) Live. Good evening, and welcome back. Our nine o’clock guest is Mr. Mohammed.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=5) We’re welcoming you today to discuss this topic, which you’ve commented on before.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=10) Today, this widely shared video features the late Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=14) In it, he confirms and says that broadcasting the call to prayer over loudspeakers is not obligatory.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=22) What do you say in response, or what’s your opinion?

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=26) Welcome to you, and to the gentlemen and ladies watching.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=30) We wrote about this topic a long time ago and said it was evidence of the cancerous spread of the Sahwa movement into every area of life here and into all official and unofficial institutions.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=46) This obstinacy is telling. I called it microphone power.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=51) The microphone is a source of power, and so is the partisan activist movement which Dr. Dr. Tawfiq Al-Sudairi, Deputy Deputy Minister of Islamic Affairs, admitted to.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=66) These pulpits and microphones fall under that ministry.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=69) He discussed it in his book, which will be released if approved, if approved.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=76) It will be at the next book fair, and it is called Diagnosing the Sahwa.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=80) The Sahwa movement, ma’am, does not take its fatwas from Ibn Uthaymeen or from Ibn Baz.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=86) They also have their known foreign affiliations, and a spiritual guide to whom they pledge allegiance even if it is in secret.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=94) This is evidence that the ministry banned the use of microphones based on a fatwa by Ibn Uthaymeen.

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=101) There is also a similar fatwa by Ibn Baz.

[1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=103) A decision by the ministry, Mr. Mohammed, you say.

[1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=108) Yes, it was issued in 2009. And it seems to me that Tawfiq— Tawfiq Al- Sudairi was also the one who made this decision, but it was not implemented.

[1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=119) And we used to wonder how a ministry— I mean, its employees don't listen.

[2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=125) Why do you think the decision wasn't implemented then?

[2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=130) Because the one— the one who makes this decision is the one using the microphones.

[2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=134) They're a team against the state, against the state in every sense of the word.

[2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=140) They want to embarrass the state. The state makes a decision, and we make one too.

[2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=145) I mean, we cancel it. We don't recognize the decision.

[2:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=148) That's power. But with what time I have left…

[2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=151) Mr. Mohammed, go ahead. Why do some people see these customs, or this authority, as you called it, as part and parcel of the spirit and essence of Islam, even though they aren't?

[2:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=165) This is what the Awakening movement does, and what it has continued to do and instill in people: that...

[2:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=172) I mean, even to conceal such fatwas and bring forward what it sees as its agenda— an agenda of extremism, fear, and intimidation.

[3:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=181) Imagine when this sound disturbs worshippers or little children, when it frightens them— one call to prayer from one side, and another from the other, in a terrifying way.

[3:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=192) It spreads panic in this country, among these people.

[3:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=196) I want ordinary people to feel anxious. Bear in mind, some mosques are very close to one another, in some populated areas.

[3:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=209) There’s no dispute about that. Also, even the building of mosques.

[3:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=213) I call them harmful mosques, mosques of harm.

[3:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=216) The Messenger, peace be upon him, demolished a mosque built to undermine Quba Mosque in Medina.

[3:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=223) He, peace be upon him, demolished it because it was harming that mosque.

[3:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=226) Now we have a mosque of harm in every neighborhood.

[3:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=230) Mosques should also be reduced so there will be more people in each one.

[3:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=234) People are complaining now. Mosque imams are complaining about the low attendance at mosques because we have a mosque for every citizen.

[4:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=244) So I suggested they announce a car raffle for prayers people are usually late for, like dawn prayer and raffle off one of the Commission's James Jeeps which was also a source of terror and intimidation for people by means other than what God Almighty revealed.

[4:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=261) So, in the name of religion, I'm trying to spread panic and fear in this society.

[4:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=267) We hope the picture is now clear. This is the Sahwa movement.

[4:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=269) Yes, and this is a long discussion but unfortunately, our time on Nine has run out.

[4:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=276) Thank you for being here and taking part with us.

[4:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9Eb3gOoTyq3b/en/mosque-loudspeakers-ibn-uthaymeen-s-fatwa-and-the-sahwa-movement?t=278) Our guest from Riyadh, journalist and writer Muhammad.