Ruling on touching books or magazines which contain verses of the Qur’aan for one who is menstruating or in a state of impurity following sexual activity (i.e. junub)
Question: 22829
I know that it is not permissible to touch the Mus-haf (copy of the Qur’aan containing Arabic text only) unless one has wudoo’, but does this ruling apply to single verses or books of Tafseer (Qur’aanic commentary) or books of Seerah (Prophet’s biography) etc?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
It is not permissible for a person who is in a state of
impurity to touch a single aayah because the ruling on that is the same as
the ruling on the Mus-haf. But if there are other things written alongside
the aayah, as in books of Tafseer and Fiqh, then the ruling depends on which
is the greater; if there is more Qur’aan than anything else, then it is
haraam to touch it without wudoo’, but if there is more of writings other
than Qur’aan, then it is permissible to touch it.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have
mercy on him) said: “Anything on which there is Qur’aan comes under the same
rulings as the Mus-haf if there is only Qur’aan on it, but if other things
are written on it as well as Qur’aan, then the ruling depends on which is
the greater. It is permissible to touch books of tafseer, hadeeth, fiqh and
essays in which there is some Qur’aan.” (Sharh al-‘Uddah, 1/385).
Source:
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
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