When leaving the mosque, I always get flyers and/or calendars with pictures of the Ka’ba and other religious wording. What do you do with them when you’re done? How do you dispose of them?
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Don't. Just make a stack of them and place them in a drawer or something with your other religious items. Pictures of Kaaba, etc I don't think you need to save - we're all about not worshipping pictures.
Things like papers with Quranic sayings on them - maybe just cut out the portion that has the Quranic ayah on it, and save that. I remember my parents used to do that. They have like an envelope or something filled with them, and they place it where they store the household Qurans, etc.
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I don't know about pictures, but the way I've seen people dispose anything from the Quran (and maybe hadeeth, I think), is by reciting some dua and either placing it in flowing water (i.e. river) or setting it on fire.
I've never read in Hadeeth of a specific way of doing it. But I am pretty sure that whichever way you choose has to be a respectful way (i.e. cutting up into peices and than disposing), since it is not an ordinary peice of paper.
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I've heard of this fire-setting thing too - where does this come from? Some old hindu tradition, or is it sanctioned by Islam somehow?
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collect them and when u have a huge collection, pass them on for recycling....
dint just burn them and waste resources and add to pollution....
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place something with a Quranic ayah in trash?
Armughal, sometimes your religious philosophies surprise me. You're all gung-ho about small stuff like hijabs and making sure women sit at home because that is their place, but you're okay with an ayah written on paper mingling with trash?
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I wonder if someone can show a hadith or something where it says what to do with it. I have heard of the burning thing too.
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and burning the verses of the Quran is good???
how much will u accumulate???
one fine day u will see that u now no longer have place for all the collected pieces of paper…
in america it might not be a problem…
but in places like the arab world and even pakistan, where if nothign else a bismillah will be added to 90% of the things u read, then what will u do???
i have to collect each paper i get from the university because our university logo contains a verse from the Quran…
so how much r u going to collect???
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The only thing I know of which maybe somewhat related to this topic is about Hazrat Uthman ordering the unaunthentic records of the Quran to be burned by the people, and only one (the most authentic) be kept, somewhere in the periods of time when the Quran was being compiled. But an explanation to this may have been their unauthenticness. However, even if they were unauthentic, there must have been some parts which were not or parts where the texts were in their original uncorrupted form.
No where in the Quran or Hadeeth have I read that burning it is not permissible, so it is okay to do so (unless I am wrong).
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I’ve also heard of either putting them in fire or down a flowing river. 
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Lahore, that's probably where they got the burning thing from.
FYI, the other "versions" of the Quran were not actually versions with problems or different meanings or something wrong with them. They were Qurans that were written in a different Arabic dialect.
Armughal, I see your point, but then don't collect all those papers. Or at least do the burning thing, because apparently one of your beloved sahabah that you love to immitate (because they're all so perfect and infallible blah blah blah) decided to burn those copies. I think burning is better than the verses landing next to some lady's dirty tampons. Don't you think?
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Armughal, I see your point, but then don't collect all those papers. Or at least do the burning thing, because apparently one of your beloved sahabah that you love to immitate (because they're all so perfect and infallible blah blah blah) decided to burn those copies. I think burning is better** than the verses landing next to some lady's dirty tampons**. Don't you think?
Yup! What I've read from scholars say similar things, that if you just dispose Quranic verses like ordinary things, somewhere down the road they will end up mingling with something dirty. Hence the best way to dispose it is by burning them or place them in flowing water where they will disintegrate.
I think Hadeeth or Quran mentions something along the lines of not to place such texts in dirty or unclean places. This also means not to place them where they might later end up being in an unclean place (i.e. garbage).
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Not that menstrual blood is "unclean" per say. Its not like urine or something. But its still disrespectful. Obviously, we don't save our tampons to decorate our rooms with.
Just to keep the gender bias, imagine the ayah landing near some guy's dirty underwear.
I'm sorry, I can't be sexist.
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^ i suggested passing them for recycling....
and i am sorry i had no idea that paper recycling firms mix in "lady's dirty tampons" and "guy's dirty underwear" with paper as well....
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What about paper with obscene pictures drawn on them?
In FACT, pictures are haraaaaaaam. Right? How insulting armughal, putting an ayah right next to a picture of a person. Or a person doing something questionable. 
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I've never done that so not sure but how about using PAPER SHREDDERS. Now-a-days the shredders can do diamong-cut or even smaller pieces. Once its cut this way then there are no words or even letters. So it can be easily thrown anywhere.
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well, most of the verses that we get r from newspapers, and it wud be no surprise if just on the reverse side of the verse u have a picture of someone…
P.S. newspapers in the islamic world differ from the english newspapers u read in USa…
u’d be surprised to realize that even if its not a verse the name of Allah cna appear in almost any piece of news…
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I’ve heard of burning it or burying it. I was able to find two fatawa; however, they aren’t making any reference to Quran or ahadith.
Here are the links anyway: