ETIQUETTE WITH THE QUR’AN PT.3

Reciting the Qur’an from a device that carries it

The following question was asked of a marja`:

Is it permitted to recite the Qur’an from a mobile phone[1] without wudu’?

The marja, Imam Abdur-Rahman Ash-Shami, may Allah preserve him, answered with what follows,

At the time that the ayat of the Qur’an appear on the mobile phone,[2] at that point this object receives the same ruling as a page from the mushaf[3] and thus it is compulsory to have wudu’ in order to touch it.

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[1] American: cell phone

[2] This means before that point wudu’ is not required to carry it as one is merely carrying the Qur’an.

[3] The mushaf is the place where the entirety of the Arabic Qur’an, that very book which was sent down upon the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is written out in full without any commentary or attribution of any other book or language.