Hiring A Person to Read the Qur'an

Question :

Is it permissible to hire someone to recite the Qur'an?

Answer:

It is prohibited to hire someone to read the Qur'an and to confer the reward of that recitation to the dead, because the person who has accepted payment for his recitation has, taken a worldly reward, invalidating any other reward. So there is nothing left for him to give to the dead. Moreover, it is not sanctioned to gather together to recite the Qur'an for the purpose of conferring its reward to the dead. If such a practice were worthy, the early generations of pious Muslims would have applied it.

In case you have not memorized much and, can not recite well, or you make many mistakes in recitation, then you are required to strive to improve your recitation and the amount of Qur'an that you have memorized. If such thing is done in such case (i.e., making mistakes during recitation), with the objective of improving your recitation, then this is something that may be excused.

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