Audio Cassettes Are Not Like Paper

Question :

Is it permissible to throw audio cassettes into the garbage which contain recordings of the Qur'an or of sayings of the Prophet ?

Answer:

These cassettes which include some Prophetic Hadiths or verses of the Qur'an do not actually have the same status of verses of the Qur'an or Hadiths. They are merely reels of tape that result in a voice being heard when played in a tape machine. So they do not fall under the ruling of papers upon which something is written from the Qur'an or Hadiths.

Therefore, as long as one does not have the intention of debasing the Qur'an, there is no harm in discarding them as one pleases; the same goes for entering the washroom with such tapes, there is no harm in that, since neither verses of the Qur'an, nor Hadiths appear on such cassettes.

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