Questions on Touching the Qur’an

Can you handle a copy of the Quran without wudhu if it is covered or if you use something e.g. cloth? I understand the same circumstances apply to a mushaf as well as a quran tafsir book? 2. what about handling something which has Quran in/on it? examples may be a clock with surah al-fatihah and first few verses of al-Baqarah on it, a frame for the wall which has part of Ayat-ul-Kursi on it, even a paper with some Qur'an written on it? 3. is it better to write Quran with capital 'Q'? what should our approach be whenever we write such 'sacred' info including writing names of prophets? what about writing generally good things, should there be any extra etiquette without which we would sin?

Assalamu alaykum

1. Yes one can handle a copy of the Qur’an without wudu (without touching it directly, which is haram), provided that if it is covered by something unattached to it, i.e. not the cover. One can also hold a cloth to pick it up with. However, it is prohibitively disliked to use a piece of cloth that one is wearing, for example one’s sleeve. [Hashiya al-Tahtawi, 1:206, Maktaba al-‘Ilm al-Hadith]
2. Books of tafsir may be touched if the tafsir content is greater than the Qur’an content, though it is disliked to touch them without wudu.
3. Objects with Qur’anic verses on them are not the same as a mus-haff (copy of the Qur’an). One may touch these without wudu provided that on does not touch the actual Qur’anic verse which would require wudu to touch.
4. Following the rules of the English language, names of prophets should be written with capitals, the same with the Qur’an. If one takes any specific measures to show reverence to the Qur’an or to any of the prophets of Allah (May the peace and blessings of Allah be on them all) then one can certainly benefit spiritually from this act of reverence and can be rewarded for it.

And Allah knows best.

Sohail Hanif