Fatwa 6

Subject: A Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:45:33 + 0000
From: “none someone
To: “Jamia Ashrafia”<ummqura@brain.net.pk>

Assalam-o-Alaikum
I want to know about something really unfortunate. Actually we had a TAFSEER of Quran (set of five books). Unfortunately one of the books is damaged badly. This happened surely because of our carelessness but also that we had to shift 11 times in last two years. Thus because of that frequent shifting we could not give due attention to those books which we should have done. Now I want to know as to what should we do about those books. A few words of Qruan also got SHAHEED, and the condition of the books is extremely poor. My mother says that she heard from someone that we should drop such a book in to an old well which is not being used anymore. Is this the solution or if there is any other way, please let me know. Secondly, thought I do know that it is such a big mistake that it should not be forgiven, or may not have anything such as KAFARAH, but as humen being , we make mistakes and we did not do this intentionally, it just happened. So how do we ask for forgiveness and what about the conditions of KAFARAH, or something of that kind?
Waiting for your reply impatiently.

Yours truly,

Subject: Reply of your query dated 25-5-2002
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:15:18 + 0500
From: “Jamia Ashrafia”<ummqura@brain.net.pk>
To:“none someone”

Assalam-o-Alaikum
To dispose off the old, decayed and illegible scripts of QURAN-E-PAK, the best way is to wrap these in a piece of cloth and dig a pit with side pocket and bury them into it. This pit should be dug at a place where no treading over be possible. If digging of a pit with side pocket is not possible, then such a worn out book should be enclosed in a box and then buried, so that the pages of such Quran be saved from dust. Third disposal is that these should be put in bag along with a few stones and sunk in a running water of river or canal.
Allah knows the best.

Darul-Iftah
Jamia Ashrafia, Lahore.