phones. The description of the programis: Displaying some adhkaar,
ayaat, and ahadeeth that urge to remember Allah, on the mobile screen.
There are some difficulties we face regarding using the 'Uthmaani
script and vowels.
The question is:
Is it permissible to display few ayaat in a script other than the
'Uthmaani and not be voweled on the mobile screen to remind of zikr
and du'a?.
Praise be to Allaah.
It is not permissible to write the Mus-haf in anything other than the
'Uthmaani script that was agreed upon at the time of the Sahaabah.
Ashhab said: Maalik (may Allaah have mercy on him)was asked: Can the
Mus-haf be written in the scripts that the people are used to. He
said: No, it should be written as it was written initially.
This was narrated by Abu 'Amr al-Daani in al-Muqni', then he said:
None of the scholars of the ummah disagreed with that.
Imam Ahmad (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: It is haraam to differ
from the script of the Mus-haf of'Uthmaan in ya', waw, alif or any
other letter.
Al-Bayhaqi said in Shu'ab al-Eeeman: Whoever writes a Mus-haf should
adhere to the letters as they are written in these Mus-hafs and not
write them differently or changeanything that they wrote, for they had
more knowledge and were more sincere in heart and in speech, and were
more trustworthy than us, so we should not think that we know better
than them.
And he narrated that Zayd said: Recitation should be done in
accordance with the Sunnah. Sulaymaan ibn Dawood al-Haashimi said:
This means, do not differ from the people, rather follow the Sunnah.
He said: I heard somethingsimilar in meaning from Abu 'Ubayd
concerning that, and you see that the reciters never paid any
attention to the way the Arabic language is written if that differs
from the script of the Mus-haf and adhering to the script of the
Mus-haf is one of the established ways that no one has the right to
differ from. End quote.
See: al-Burhaan fi 'Uloom al-Qur'aan by al-Zarkashi (1/379); al-Itqaan
by al-Suyooti (4/146).
Al-Suyooti (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in al-Itqaan: They are
unanimously agreed that it is obligatory to follow the script of the
'UthmaaniMus-hafs in [rules of tajweed]. End quote from al-Itqaan fi
'Uloom al-Qur'aan (1/250).
All of this applies if what ismeant is writing the Mus-haf in full.
But when it comes to writing a verse or a few verses, and quoting them
in books or magazines, and the like, there is nothing wrong with it,
and this is what people doin their books, although it is better to use
the script of the Mus-haf whenever possible, and to quote it directly
from the Mus-haf.
The ruling on that has been explained in the answer to question no. 97741 .
Based on that:
There is nothing wrong with what you have mentioned about showingsome
verses on the screens of mobile phones in something other than the
'Uthmaani script, if it isnot possible to show themin the 'Uthmaani
script, but one should take care to make sure than the verses that are
written in this manner are those thatare usually easy to read, and not
subject to mistakes. And one should take care to make sure that they
are written correctly so that there will be no errors in reading and
publishing them.
And Allaah knows best.
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