Q1: JazzkAllahu kharina Imam,

What about touching the quran in that situation? According to the Shaifi I was taught that you could touch the quran but recommended to touch it with cloth? Can you clarify that please? (comment box)

JazzkAllahu kharian imam!

Q2: Can one touch the quran when in menses. Did you say yes a while back or not?  Some sites allow for it. Its confusing. If you can give a Hadith or ayah or something then I would appreciate it (email)

Q3: What is the ruling for a woman with weak memory that has memorized the quran? Can she read? (email)

Answers:

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Do not touch the Quran except while pure.

The above is found in: Imaam Ahmad, Nisia, Abu Duwood, Bayhaqi

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Do not touch the Quran except you are pure (clean.)

The above can be found in the following books: Daruqutni, Abu Dawood, Bayhaqi, Mustadrik Hakim, Musnad Abdul Razak, Tabrani

The scholars have derived laws based on the above as well as the quranic phrase:

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In conjunction with the above, one cannot touch the Quran whilst in the state of menses. Should need arise, touching the Quran with a separate cloth that is not attached to the Quran or body is allowed by Ahnaf. Imaams shafee and malik do not allow for this type of touching either {more so, touching the Quran merely for the sake of touching it} (naturally more so when viewed on the above injunction.) We grant respect to all the above views within their rightful context.

Ahnaf allow the quran to be touched with a handkerchief, hat, piece of cloth – all these articles are detached from the body thus its allowance.

Reading the Quran by holding it in the state of menses or major impurity that requires bathing is not allowed by all major scholars. The debate is weather a woman in menses can read the Quran in the state of menses without touching it whilst she has memorized it and fears forgetting it. Our contention is that if it must be read in such a state, it must be read in the mind, without the movement of the tongue. If it must be touched, it must be done with a piece of cloth that is detached from the Quran. Or it can be read whilst looking at a screen from a distace or whilst some other person is holding it. Again, it would not be read aloud, it would read in the mind without movement of tongue or comprising of any sound.

Under general circumstances we must not advocate reading Quran during menses. A woman would be given her full reward for such patience. Her reward would not only be for NOT reading the Quran in her given state, but also for following the Quran as the Quran demands. 

Allah Certainly Knows Best.