The Ruling on Disposing of a Copy of the Gospel

Question:
A guest of Shaykh Abu 'Abdullah has a part of the Gospel, and he does not know where to place it in his library. He is imagining that he should place it in the section for distorted texts because of the distortion in it, or should he place it in a respectable location, or should he dispose of it?

Answer:
The obligatory course of action is one of two things: either you destroy it and get rid of it, or you take it to the restricted libraries that have a section for books with restricted access. These are placed there for reference when needed, so that scholars can look at them when necessary. There are sections in public libraries called "restricted access books."
These are books that only the specialists among the students of knowledge can look at, like the poisons found in pharmacies. There are pharmacies with sections for poisons that are not dispensed except through difficult procedures, and no one can look at them or access them. This is like those poisons. Yes, so either you destroy it and burn it, or you take it to this section. Yes.