❣️ ❝ The muʿtakif (i.e. person who is in iʿtikāf) must adhere to his iʿtikāf in order to worship Allah, not like the situation of many people today — you see him fiddling with his cell phone and reading newspages in his iʿtikāf, also gatherings and meetings for visitors are held inside the place of iʿtikāf. What has happened to the mu'takif? This has become a place for visits, where is the benefit of iʿtikāf? It is a necessity for it to be a place for obedience and seclusion from the people, and if a person organizes meetings, he should place them in a place other than it. ❞

— Shaykh Sulaymān Al-ʿAlwān (Quote from Fatāwā Al-Ṣiyām)

~ Galandān