Printing the Qur’an in Calendars and Newspapers

Question

The Noble Qur’an is printed on calendars and hung up in shops and houses with the intention of decoration. Within a few days it falls from the walls and ends up cast into gutters and rubbish heaps, whereby the Noble Qur’an is dishonoured. In newspapers the Word of Allah is printed in great quantity, and shopkeepers — grocers — make use of these pages, make paper cones out of them, and then throw them into gutters, or burn them in stoves, or throw them onto rubbish.

Answer

This state of affairs is certainly contrary to reverence for the Noble Qur’an and brings about [spiritual] calamity. Correcting and preventing it is necessary. If the Qur’anic verses are made a mere means of decoration and a room is adorned with them, even this is not permitted — let alone that in the end they are thrown away full of filth, or these verses are thrown into…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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