Preserving the Sanctity of the Qa‘ida Baghdadi by Burning It

Question

Are the pages of a Qa‘ida Baghdadi (“The Baghdadi Primer” for learning to read the Qur’an) — in which the eighteen exercises are written according to the letters of the alphabet — also obligatorily deserving of the same respect as the Noble Qur’an and its like? If such pages, instead of being taken out of filth, washed, and carefully kept or buried, are used by the mosque’s imam to light the fire of the bathhouse, such that [ash] flies down as far as the urinal and the place for shoes — and the imam says that for…

Answer

Even individual letters (huruf mufrada) deserve respect, and the Qa‘ida Baghdadi does contain compound words (alfaz murakkaba) of the Noble Qur’an. Moreover, exercise No. 18 also contains the Names of Allah, the Exalted, and words of supplication (du‘a). Therefore, such pages simply must not be used as a means of lighting a fire.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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