Question: What is the ruling applauded for men at certain moments and meetings?
Answer:
Meetings applauded in an act of ignorance. Opinions expressed legal lightest makruh. And more real than the arguments that there is that it is haram, because the Muslims are prohibited from resembling the unbelievers. Indeed Allah says l says unbelievers in Makkah properties:
"Prayer them around Baitullah it, is nothing but whistling and clapping." (Al-Anfal: 35)
The scholars said: المكاء is whistling while التصدية was applause. And the Sunnah for a Muslim when he saw or heard something that awesome or what he denied was saying Subhanallah (Glory to God) or Allahu Akbar (God is great), as it is authentic from the Prophet n in many hadith. And the applause is prescribed for women when they are reminded something in prayer, or when they pray along with men and priests forgot. When it is prescribed for women to remind the clapping. The priest reminded men with prayer beads (greeting Subhanallah) as it is authentic from the Sunnah of the Prophet n. From this it is known that the applause for him was an act like infidels and women. Both are things that are forbidden for men. God alone gives taufiq. (Spread the Fatawa Is he on the column `alu Ahla Adh-Dhikr that he spend the monthly magazine Al-Arabiyyah, taken from Ibn Baaz Fataawa wa Maqalat, Volume 6)
