Tuesday 4 October 2011

Is it permissible for a menstruating woman to write Qur’aanic verses?

 

I like to if a woman is allowed to write Sura in Arabic during mentural cycle.

Praise be to Allaah.

Firstly: 

It is permissible for a menstruating woman, and also a woman
who is bleeding following childbirth (nifaas) to recite Qur’aan without
touching it. For more information please see the answer to question no.
2564. 

Secondly: 

It is permissible for a menstruating woman, and also a woman
who is bleeding following childbirth (nifaas) to write Qur’aanic verses, on
the condition that she does not touch the letters, because the prohibition
only has to do with touching the Mushaf, and writing is not touching. 

It says in al-Jawharah al-Nayyirah, which is a Hanafi
book (1/31): 

It is makrooh for a person who is junub or a menstruating
woman to write down Qur’aan if he or she touches the slate or chalk. But if
he or she places it on the ground and writes without putting his or her hand
on the written letters, it was nothing wrong with that. End quote. 

It is permissible for one who is in a state of impurity, or
even a dhimmi, to write it without touching it because the prohibition, as
stated above, applies to touching it, and this is not touching.

End quote from Kashshaaf al-Qinaa‘, 1/135 

Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked: 

We are female students in the girls’ college and we have to
memorise some Qur’aan. Sometimes the tests come during one’s menstrual
period. Is it acceptable to write the soorah on a piece of paper and
memorise it or not? 

He replied: 

It is permissible for the woman who is menstruating or
bleeding following childbirth to recite Qur’aan according to the more
correct of the two scholarly opinions… The same applies to the piece of
paper on which Qur’aan is written if necessary.

End quote from Majmoo‘ Fataawa Ibn Baaz, 10/209 

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) was
asked: Is it permissible to write some verses on the chalkboard without
having wudoo’? What is the ruling on touching the chalkboard on which those
verses are written? 

He replied: 

It is permissible to write Qur’aan without wudoo’ so long as
one does not touch it. As for touching the chalkboard on which those verses
are written, the Hanbali fuqaha’ say it is permissible for a boy to touch
the slate on which verses have been written in the places that are free of
writing, i.e., so long as his hand does not touch the letters – does the
chalkboard come under this heading or not? In my view this is a matter for
which there is no definite answer.

End quote from Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 11/214 

And Allah knows best.

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