{"id":20614,"date":"2021-03-15T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T10:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=20614"},"modified":"2021-03-15T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T10:40:41","slug":"will-it-be-permissible-to-touch-the-mobile-phone-screen-when-reading-the-quran-without-wudhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/will-it-be-permissible-to-touch-the-mobile-phone-screen-when-reading-the-quran-without-wudhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Will It Be Permissible To Touch the Mobile Phone Screen When Reading the Quran Without Wudhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05038<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Naieem Mohammad<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">If a person reads the Quran on the mobile phone, will it be permissible to touch the areas highlighted in red without wudhu or will the whole screen be in the hukm of a mushaf page?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The words and writing that we see on the screen of a mobile phone are definitely not like the writing on paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Every screen image is compiled of very small dots called pixels which are lit up to form images, thus the \u201cwriting\u201d is actually never solid like ink on paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Thus it will be permissible to touch the screen without wudhu when the Quran app is displayed because the command for having wudhu is applicable to the permanent legible written words of the Quran that may be in a Mushaf (book), page, etc. If we also look at the physical makeup of a phone\/tablet screen, there is a shield of glass above the actual screen display, thus even though some may argue that the Quran verses are actual verses on the screen and wudhu is necessary, there is no way of touching the screen directly without firstly removing or breaking the glass shield. Therefore, whichever angle we look at it from, it will be permissible to touch the \u201cQuran\u201d on the mobile phone screen without wudhu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A believer should however always be in the state of wudhu even though it may not be necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In conclusion, the Quran verses displayed on a phone\/tablet screen do not require wudhu to be touched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Maulana Naieem Mohammad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 05038 &nbsp; Answered by: Maulana Naieem Mohammad &nbsp; Question &nbsp; If a person reads the Quran on the mobile phone, will it be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20767,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614\/revisions\/20767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}