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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Touching the Mushaf in a State of Minor Ritual Impurity

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Question:
May Allah reward you. I move on to another questioner from al-Khafji. He says: What is the correct view regarding touching the Mushaf when a man is in a state of minor ritual impurity? Sometimes a person feels the desire to read the Qur'an, but he may be lazy about it because he is in a state of minor ritual impurity? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
It is not permissible for one in a state of minor or major ritual impurity to touch the Mushaf directly. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
no-one should touch the Qur'an unless he was pureلا يمس القرآن إلا طاهر
Muwatta Malik 15:1
, as in the hadith of 'Amr ibn Hazm regarding the letter the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) wrote for him:
no-one should touch the Qur'an unless he was pureلا يمس القرآن إلا طاهر
Muwatta Malik 15:1
. However, he can read from the short surahs from memory, or if he needs the Mushaf, there should be a barrier between him and it, by placing a barrier on his hand and turning the pages of the Qur'an from the Mushaf, or using a ruler or a pen, and not touching it directly. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/225 — archive.org (13:48)

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