I am sending you an article on the permissibility of loud thikr written by a student of a Darul Uloom.

Answer

We have answered the Thikr issue from all angles in our detailed book, Thikrullah in the Mirror of the Sunnah. Our kitaab is an adequate response for the incongruities and mixed-up 'proofs' of the student. Hadhrat Thanvi (rahmatullah alayh) did not advocate nor participate in loud congregational Thikr in the manner in which today's deviates are perpetrating and baselessly claiming. Hadhrat Masihullah (rahmatullah alayh), our Shailkh and Ustaadh, was an ardent devotee of Hadhrat Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh). In all the years we were with him, not once did he advocate such forms of Thikr, nor ever participate in it.

Furthermore, at no stage did we claim that loud thikr is not permissible. But, our critics behave like morons. They are too stupid to understand what they are reading, yet they are supposed to be molvis and muftis. If we say that it is haraam to recite the Qur'aan in the toilet, they slander with their claim that we are saying that it is haraam to recite the Qur'aan. They acquit themselves with typical Barelwi Qabar-Pujaari mentality. Insha'Allah, when time and life permits, and if Allah Ta'ala bestows to us the taufeeq, we shall publish a rebuttal of the half-baked 'proofs' of the half-baked student.