O people, all of you are praying confidentially to your Lord, so do not raise your voices over one another in recitation

O people, all of you are praying confidentially to your Lord, so do not raise your voices over one another in recitation

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) was asked about a masjid where the people were reciting Quran, but at the doors of the masjid were people talking excessively, disturbing those who were reciting. He answered:

It is not permissible for anyone to harm the people of the masjid: the people of prayer, recitation, remembrance, supplication, etc., [acts] for which the masajid were built. Thus, it is unbefitting for anyone inside the masjid, at the doors of the masjid or anywhere near it to disturb these individuals. Rather, one time the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) came out to his companions while they were praying and raising their voices in recitation [of the Quran] and said: "O people, all of you are praying confidentially to your Lord, so do not raise your voices over one another in recitation." So if he forbade the person who was praying from raising his voice [in recitation] over another worshiper, how much more for other than this? Therefore, whoever does that which disturbs the people of the masjid or what causes it, they are to be prevented from this, and Allah knows best. 

(Majmu al-Fatawa 22/205)

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Without doubt, the sincere person has tasted the sweetness of his worship for Allaah,
this is what stops him from performing worship for other than Allaah,
since there is nothing more sweet or more blessed for the heart
than the sweetness of Emaan in Allaah the Lord of the worlds. 

Ibn Taymeeyah - al-Fatawa 10/215