Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Kissing the Qur’an

When I was young in madrasa and anyone dropped the absolute color

in the Quran by accident, they would quickly pick it up and kiss

it. Some people also had a habit of kissing the Quran on the front

cover. When they finished praying, I've noticed this habit continuing

adults, when they finished praying, they kiss the cover and

put the Quran away. where it's come from. And is this allowed?

Absolutely. It's allowed. It's the it's the book of Allah subhanaw

taala. So when you if it's allowed to kiss somebody else, like you're

allowed to kiss friends on their forehead, for example, are you

allowed to kiss your spouse, you're allowed to kiss your

mother, your father, children, then why is it allowed to kiss the

Quran? As simple as that, you know, like, what's wrong with

kissing something? Right? There's nothing wrong with it. We do it

out of respect. It's not an A but it's not a bad so there's no

better here. It'd be better if you say if you do it, then you get

this many rewards or something new make up some kind of worship

aspect of it. So kissing the Quran is not an issue at all. It's like

I've got so much love for this Quran has given me so much

guidance, the words of my Lord, I can't kiss my Lord, I want to kiss

his Quran. So there's nothing wrong with that. However, to

insist that people must kiss the Quran is a problem because it's

not something that has been legislated that you must use the

Quran. So you can't tell others to do it. You can't insist but if

you've got a feeling you want to kiss the Quran is completely fine.

Right? People you know, they when they get their first cell phone,

you get the new iPhone or whatever, which this is not 100 is

just like, you know, they they, they kiss the iPhone, they kiss

whatever they get. It's just an expression. There's nothing wrong

with it.