8- ACTIONS UNLAWFUL DURING MINOR RITUAL IMPURITY
ACTIONS UNLAWFUL DURING MINOR RITUAL IMPURITY
The following are unlawful for someone in a state of minor ritual impurity:
1. To perform the prayer;
2. To prostrate when reciting the Quran at verses in which it is sunna to do so
3. To prostrate out of thanks
4. To circumambulate the Kaaba
5. Or to carry a Quran, even by a strap or in a box, or touch it, whether its writing, the spaces between its lines, its margins, binding, the carrying strap attached to it, or the bag or box it is in.
(Other aspects of proper manners (adab) towards the Book of Allah are treated below) (The opinion expressed in Fiqh al-sunna that it is permissible to touch the Quran without ritual purity is a deviant view contrary to all four schools of jurisprudence and impermissible to teach, except to explain that it is aberrant.) (Though in the Hanafi school, it is permissible for someone in a state of minor ritual impurity to touch or carry a Koran that is inside a cover not physically attached to it, such as a case or bag, as opposed to something joined to it, like a binding (al-Lubab fi sharh al-Kitab (y88), 1.43). And Allah knows best.)
It is also unlawful (when without ablution) to touch or carry any of the Quran written for the purpose of study, even a single verse or part of one, as when written on a slate or the like.
(But this is permissible for non-study purposes such as when the Quran is intended to be an amulet. It is not prohibited to touch or carry such an amulet even if it contains whole suras, or even, as Sheikh (Shirbini) al-Khatib has said, if it contains the whole Quran.)
It is permissible to carry a Koran in one’s baggage and to carry money, rings, or clothes on which Quran is written. It is permissible to carry books of Sacred Law, hadith, or Quranic exegesis which contain Quran, provided that most of their text is not Quran (because the non-Quranic part is the purpose, though this is unlawful if half or more is Koran).
Boys who have reached the age of discrimination (may touch or carry the Quran while in a state of minor ritual impurity (because of the need to learn it and the hardship of their keeping ablution, and likewise for young girls, though this is for study alone, as opposed to non-study, when it is unlawful. As for children under this age, their guardian may not give a Quran to them) (as this is an insult to it. Also, teachers should remind children that it is unlawful to moisten one’s fingers with saliva to turn its pages).
Someone in a state of minor or major impurity may write Quran if he does not touch or carry what he has written.
When one fears that a Quran may burn, get soaked, that a non-Muslim may touch it, or that it may come into contact with some filth, then one must pick it up if there is no safe place for it, even if one is in a state of minor or major ritual impurity, though performing the dry ablution (tayammum) is obligatory if possible.
It is unlawful to use a Koran or book of Islamic knowledge as a pillow (0: except for fear of theft, when it is permissible to do so). And Allah knows best.
(Source: The reliance of the traveller, revised edition, Edited and Translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller)
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