Listening to Quran at bedtime to remove anxiety

Translated from:

http://www.binbaz.org.sa/node/19453

Question: I sometimes feel afraid when I sleep by myself in a room or in my room. I feel compelled to play the Quran because I am able to sleep upon hearing its verses. Is this permissible?

Answer (by Shaikh Bin Baz): I do not know of anything wrong with this. Because the Quran is the companion of the Believer. And it is the remembrance of Allaah, The Mighty and Majestic. Listening to it is worship. So when a person needs to listen to it to remove anxiety or to put his heart at ease, then there is no problem with that. Alhamdulillah.

Shaikh Bin Baz: “I don’t like to be praised…”

قال الشيخ ربيع

وأتذكر مرة أن أحد العلماء المصريين أثنى على

الشيخ ابن باز ثناءً يستحقه

واعترض على هذا الثناء الشيخ ابنُ حميد رحمه الله وقال

أنت أثنيت علي الشيخ في وجهه وما كان ينبغي

فقد قَصَمْتَ ظهر الشيخ

فقال الشيخ معلقًا وكان مختنقًا بالبكاء

والله إني يعلم الله لا أحب المدحَ ظاهرًا ولا باطنًا

من ص 6 من الكتاب: الفرقة الناجية أصولها وعقائدها

Shaikh Rabee said:

I remember once that one of the scholars of Egypt

praised Shaikh Bin Baz – praise that he deserved

Shaikh Bin Humaid objected to this praise

(i.e. he objected to someone being praised to their face)

– (we ask that) Allaah have mercy upon him –

and he (Shaikh Ibn Humaid) said:

You have praised the Shaikh to his face and

this was not befitting;

you have broken the Shaikh’s back.

So Shaikh Bin Baz commented on that

while choking back tears by saying:

“By Allaah, Indeed Allaah knows

that I don’t like to be praised,

neither to my face nor behind my back”

From p.6 of the book:

The Saved Sect: Its Principles and its Beliefs