Suppose you are in a situation where u have to dispose off the quran or some of its pages. People say one shouldnot burn it but instead they can put it in the river/lake/sea etc. Why it cannot be burned and putting it in lake/river sea means that it will be in dirty water and will end up in a dirty place…so from that point of view is burning not better?..what are the reasons behind it?
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what do they do in saudi arabia? i guess disposing in water body is our cultural thing which existed since thousands of years.
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Wrap in a clean cloth and bury it at a place where animals or human feet won't dirty it.
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Reminds me of a funny story that I read in Dawn.
A madrassah near Rawalpindi had a policy of burying torn pages of the Quran in a well. They sent one of their students there to dispose of some Quran pages, but he found thaat not only was the well filled, but there were pages of the Quran that had been blown out of the well and were flying around on the dirty ground.
He had learned in class that if burying Quranic pages or putting them in running water was not possible, then it was permissible to burn them. So he carefully collected up the pages and then set fire to them to ensure they would no longer get desecrated.
It was at that point that our hero’s fortune turned against him. He got spotted by a guy who had learned from a scholar with different opinion that the Quran can never be burned. He got surrounded by a mob who began torturing him on the spot. They ignored his pleas that he was following his religious instruction, and kept getting beaten. Eventually the mob took him to the police, who arrested him for blasphemy!
He got taken to a court where he explained what happened, that he was a devout Muslim, and he never would have done this if he knew that some would consider it to blasphemy. The court decided that there was still merit to the blasphemy case against him (remember that this carries a death penalty) and the last mention of him in the news involved him being taken off to prison again.
Fortunately for him, his madrassah is sticking by him and his maulana teacher were still insisting that he did the right thing.
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Thankyou for the responses.
Any highlights on 'shouldnot burn the quran/its pages'?
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Peace All,
Rather than burning, throwing in river/sea or burying it, we can wrap it in a cloth and keep it our home (in shelf, drawer or elsewhere) with others books. I think we can find lil bit space between our all other things.