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Assalamu alaykum. We all want our walls to look pretty. We all want something good to be on our walls.

So whether it's at home or at your workplace or elsewhere, we'd like to put up some

design, some frames, something, a wallpaper, something that would make the wall look good.

So what are the teachings of Islam regarding this design or this frame that I want to put up on my wall?

On one hand, I wanted to look beautiful. I wanted to really be amazing, stunning. I wanted to look pretty.

Like I said, and on the other hand, I don't want to earn the displeasure of Allah and I wouldn't like to compromise my own protection.

So what is meant by compromising my own protection?

I think we should spend a moment just giving a few words of beautiful guidance. Number one,

if we were to put a Quranic verse, calligraphy, something written, a dua,

Sunnah of the Prophet Salah Salam, some dua that is there, a hadith that is there, and it's written beautifully in lovely

calligraphy and we want to paste it or post it on the wall. Yes, the scholars have spoken about it, some have said it's okay,

some have said it's not okay. The Middle Path is such that if you are to put it up on the wall,

make sure you read from it and make sure you're reminded about it and make sure that you also tell others to read it.

In that particular case, it would not just be a decoration because those who say it's prohibited, they have a point.

The Quran was not revealed in order to be just a decoration somewhere. No, the hadith was not sent to us just for it to be

decorating a certain wall, but if you were to use it as a reminder every now and again,

doesn't have to be every single time, but you have a big frame with the 99 names of Allah, for example,

and it's there in your lounge, nobody's ever read it, you don't know these names and it's been there for 10 years.

Come on. You should know at least some of those names by now. What did you put that frame up there for?

Do you really think that names of Allah are just there for a design and decoration?

You know, when Subhan Allah, there is a strong hadith regarding those who learn these names, memorize them,

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