My Purity and the Qur’an

Use the following chart as a quick reference

<th>
  Description
</th>

<th>
  Can I recite from memory?
</th>

<th>
  Can I touch a mushaf?
</th>

<th>
  Comments
</th>

<td>
  The periodic blood that flows as a discharge from womens body
</td>

<td>
  Ok according to stronger opinion.
</td>

<td>
  No
</td>

<td>
  <ul>
    <li>
      There is another opinion that forbids reciting Qur&#8217;an during menstruation
    </li>
    <li>
      May read Qur&#8217;an that is printed with tafseer/ translation (given that the non-Qur&#8217;anic text is more than the Qur&#8217;anic text)
    </li>
    <li>
      May read Qur&#8217;an from the computer screen
    </li>
  </ul>
</td>

<td>
  The state of a person after sexual discharge, whether it was due to intercourse, an erotic dream or anything else
</td>

<td>
  No
</td>

<td>
  No
</td>

<td>
  You can touch a mushaf (a copy of the Qur&#8217;an &#8212; more Arabic then anything else) if there&#8217;s something in between you and it, such as a cloth
</td>

<td>
  The state of a person after wudoo is broken
</td>

<td>
  Yes
</td>

<td>
  No
</td>

<td>
  There is another opinion that allows touching a mushaf in this state
</td>

There are differences of opinion in some of these issues. I encourage everyone to study the evidences in details.

Want to know the differences between different fluid discharges and their rulings? Inshallah in the next post, we will provide a summary of these rulings. Stay tuned!

References (contain proofs for the above):

http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=10672

http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=2564&ln=eng

http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=4643&ln=eng&txt=mushaf