Ruling on taking a mushaf from al-Masjid al-Haram

Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. This questioner, Muhammad, says: I took a mushaf from the Noble Sanctuary ten years ago because of a story I was reading in it, and I forgot about it and took it to my country outside the Kingdom. Is there anything required of me in this?

Answer:
Yes, it is not permissible for you to do this, because the mushaf is an endowment (waqf) for al-Masjid al-Haram, and all the mushafs in the mosques are endowments for those mosques; it is not permissible to take them out of them. If you need a mushaf, you go to the bookstores that sell mushafs and buy one from them, and you do not take from the endowments of the mosques. So you must return this mushaf to its place, either by coming yourself to place it in al-Masjid al-Haram, or by sending it with a trustworthy person to place it in al-Masjid al-Haram. If the mushaf has been damaged and torn, then you buy one like it as a replacement and place it in the place of the original. Yes.