What is the ruling on touching the mushaf for young children?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the ruling on touching the mushaf for young children?
The Shaykh:
For young children, there is leniency in their case because they do not understand ritual purity. However, there is no leniency if they touch it without wudu; rather, as a matter of education and upbringing, they are trained to perform wudu before touching the mushaf. They are trained in this, even if they touch it without wudu, there is leniency in this because they are not accountable. Yes.
The presenter:
And likewise.
The Shaykh:
The teachers in the early days, until we encountered them, did not give children mushafs or parts of the Qur'an. They gave them tablets on which they wrote. They carried tablets with them and wrote the surah or part of a surah on a tablet. The teacher would write it, and the student would read it and repeat it until he memorized it. Once he memorized it, he would erase it and write other verses or surahs for him until he completed it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the ruling on touching the mushaf for young children?
The Shaykh:
For young children, there is leniency in their case because they do not understand ritual purity. However, there is no leniency if they touch it without wudu; rather, as a matter of education and upbringing, they are trained to perform wudu before touching the mushaf. They are trained in this, even if they touch it without wudu, there is leniency in this because they are not accountable. Yes.
The presenter:
And likewise.
The Shaykh:
The teachers in the early days, until we encountered them, did not give children mushafs or parts of the Qur'an. They gave them tablets on which they wrote. They carried tablets with them and wrote the surah or part of a surah on a tablet. The teacher would write it, and the student would read it and repeat it until he memorized it. Once he memorized it, he would erase it and write other verses or surahs for him until he completed it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [389 -582] ما حكم مس المصحف بالنسبة للأطفال الصغار؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.