The Ruling on Using Newspapers in Painting Work
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, we work in painting workshops and we use newspapers to cover windows and doors, and we paste some of these newspapers on the doors. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
Whatever you see in it that contains something of the Qur'an or of the hadiths or of the words of the scholars, it is not permissible for you to degrade it, whether in painting or otherwise. As for that in which you do not see anything of the newspapers, where you do not see a verse or a hadith or any words regarding the rulings of the Shari'ah, there is no harm in using it for a need. Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, we work in painting workshops and we use newspapers to cover windows and doors, and we paste some of these newspapers on the doors. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
Whatever you see in it that contains something of the Qur'an or of the hadiths or of the words of the scholars, it is not permissible for you to degrade it, whether in painting or otherwise. As for that in which you do not see anything of the newspapers, where you do not see a verse or a hadith or any words regarding the rulings of the Shari'ah, there is no harm in using it for a need. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/266 — archive.org (12:59)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.