Enabling the disbeliever to touch the mushaf and read from it
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is it permissible to allow a disbeliever to touch the mushaf and read from it?
The Shaykh:
No, a disbeliever is not allowed to touch the mushaf; rather, it is read to him. It is read to him if he requests that something from the Qur'an be read so that he may listen to the Qur'an. It is read to him, and he is not given the mushaf. Yes.
The questioner:
And from himself.
The Shaykh:
Because he is ritually impure[At-Tawbah 9:28] he may be given advice. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is it permissible to allow a disbeliever to touch the mushaf and read from it?
The Shaykh:
No, a disbeliever is not allowed to touch the mushaf; rather, it is read to him. It is read to him if he requests that something from the Qur'an be read so that he may listen to the Qur'an. It is read to him, and he is not given the mushaf. Yes.
The questioner:
And from himself.
The Shaykh:
Because he is ritually impure
indeed the polytheists are unclean, so let
إِنَّمَا الْمُشْرِكُونَ نَجَسٌ فَلَا
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب التخيير بين التمتع والإفراد والقران، وبيان أفضلها — islamhouse.com (1:11:56)
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