Kissing the Qur'an
Q: I see people after reciting Qur'an that they kiss it and place it against their foreheads. Is this permissible?
Q: I see people after reciting Qur'an that they kiss it and place it against their foreheads. Is this permissible?
Q: Are you allowed to read Qur'an off by heart or by looking on a computer screen if you have urine on you for e.g. your doing istibra by putting tissue on your private organ to make sure all the drops come out?
Q: What is the method of closing one's Qur'an Shareef if one needs to renew one's wudhu? Kindly explain the mas'alah when one is alone and when one is reciting Qur'an Shareef with people around.
Q: Increasingly persons with little or no pain in the legs are sitting on comfortable sofas at home and on chairs in the Musjid reciting Qur'an as they would read a newspaper. Their excuse being it's not a sin. Is it? How should one sit when reciting Qur'an? What naseehah can be offered to relatives and friends who see no problem sitting on a chair, sometimes with legs stretched out, reciting Qur'an?
Q: What is the ruling regarding:
1) A person facing his back towards the qiblah? Is this at all disliked?
2) A person facing his back towards the Quran shareef?
Q: My cat fell asleep on top of the Qur'an Shareef and other Deeni kitaabs. Please advise on what I should do in this instance. Is it necessary to awaken and move the cat?
Q: Reading the Quraan in the office with shoes on is it accepted?
Q: When one does not have wudhu is it permissible to hold the quraan if it has a quraan cover on it? Some people say it is permissible to hold it although it is adab not to hold it.
Q: This wazifa I have seen on a web site. This wazifa can be read at any time with wadhu or withour wadhu for any haajat. Is it permissable? The wazifa is Surah Tawbah ayat no. 128 and 129.
Q: Is it permissible to recite qur'an on an ipad or phone without wudhu whilst touching the screen with a pen not with th hand to go up and down
and turn the pages as I have trouble keeping my wudhu.