I want to ask, if i have my monthly period, is it halal (ok) to listen to Quran murtal from headphone player or Ipod?
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from headphone player or Ipod?
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Answer:
Listen to quran in menses
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 56 Surah Waqiah verse 77-79:
That this is a
Glorious Quran, inscribed in a
well-guarded Book, which none can
touch, except the purified.
Although
the above aayah is meant to state how the Glorious Quran is honored by the
noble Angels in the heavens; the
scholars have opined that just as the Quran is honored in the heavens by the
Angels, so should it be honored on the
earth…. And thus, one should touch it only when one is pure and clean.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 222:
They ask about the
monthly periods (of the women). Say (O
Prophet), “It is a state of impurity;
so keep apart from the women during their monthly periods and do not go
near them (sexual intercourse) until they are clean.”
According to most
scholars, one who is physically unclean (because of sex or menstruation) should
not touch the Qur'an. This is based on a hadith from Hadrat Ali (r.a.), in
which he stated that nothing kept the Messenger of Allah (saws) from touching
the Qur'an save being sexually impure.
To
the best of our knowledge, we have not come across any authentic narrations of
the Messenger of Allah (saws) where he explicitly forbade the menstruating
women to touch the Holy Quran. But it is a consensus of the scholars, who
have given their opinion in light of the above verses of the Holy Quran and the
practice of the Messenger of Allah (saws), that a person who is impure, should not touch the Quran.
All the scholars and major schools of thought in Islam are
absolutely unanimous in their opinion that there is absolutely no harm for a
woman who is experiencing her menstrual period, to recite the Quran from
memory, or listen to its recitation (either by someone in person or through devices
like recorders, or ipod, or headphones, etc.), or make supplications, or praise
and glorify her Lord Most High, Most Exalted.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan