The Ruling on Eating on Newspapers and Magazines
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Question:
He asks: What is the ruling on a person who eats on newspapers and magazines, sits on them, and uses them, for example, for fly screens and windows, if they have writing on them?
Answer:
If the newspapers contain verses, hadiths, or the words of scholars with legal rulings, you see that it is not permissible for you to insult them. Rather, you must either lift them up, burn them, or move them away from filth. You do not eat on them, nor do you degrade them. However, if you do not see any verse, hadith, or anything from the words of scholars or legal rulings in them, you do not search through them or look into them; you proceed based on the apparent state, and there is no harm in using them. Yes.
He asks: What is the ruling on a person who eats on newspapers and magazines, sits on them, and uses them, for example, for fly screens and windows, if they have writing on them?
Answer:
If the newspapers contain verses, hadiths, or the words of scholars with legal rulings, you see that it is not permissible for you to insult them. Rather, you must either lift them up, burn them, or move them away from filth. You do not eat on them, nor do you degrade them. However, if you do not see any verse, hadith, or anything from the words of scholars or legal rulings in them, you do not search through them or look into them; you proceed based on the apparent state, and there is no harm in using them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6862- حكم الأكل على الصحف والجرائد - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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