New fatwa says Qur’an on phone must be treated as such
New fatwa says Qur'an on mobile phone must be treated as holy book.
CAIRO: A new Fatwa, or an Islamic opinion, said people should be “clean and pure” before touching a mobile phone that has Qur’anic verses on it. Islamic clerk Mohamed Ben Saleh al-Monjid announced the fatwa on his personal Twitter account on Monday saying that cleanliness is essential before touching one’s phone that contains the Qur’an.
Muslims are obligated to clean-up and wash before prayer and ahead of reading and touching the Islamic holy book.
“After deliberating with Sheikh Abdel Rahman al-Barak, we came to the conclusion that if the Qur’an appears on the screen then it is treated as the book itself and if it disappears the ruling goes,” the clerk al-Munjjid wrote on Twitter Sunday.
He tweeted back on Monday a further conversation with a different clerk and came to the same conclusion.
The Fatwa is expected to draw attention and debates as technology and Islamic affairs often do in the Middle East and North Africa.
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