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If he is doing it for religious purposes, this is an innovation.

QUESTION: In my masjid, the congregation prays on a carpet, but the imam prays on a prayer mat placed over the carpet and then another prayer mat on top of that, which raises it slightly. Is this practice considered an innovation (bid’ah) in Islam?

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QUESTION: Is it permissible for the muezzin to repeat after the imam, for example, when the imam says “Allahu Akbar,” the muezzin also repeats it? Some people (oulala) in my locality say this is an innovation if the people behind the imam can hear and understand him. However, I also see that in Makkah, the muezzin repeats after the imam.