Firstly i would like to address brother mushram 23. If you have read my earlier post in this page you will notice that i've tried to explain why non-muslim are not allowed to touch.
Secondly this goes to aisha1114, i don't need to be a scholar just to distinguish between what is wrong & right. You want my proof then here it is.
First of all why wear gloves???? in the video the christian man said that he wanted to create a close relationship between islam & christianity. So this basically shows us their good intentions. Here are some of the laws they have broken
1. Touching the untranslated scripture of the quran
2. Selling the Quran to some arabs
3. Hanging the Quran in a musuem
As you can see they have broken some islamic laws. Please aisha1114 im only trying to show you that these people have indeed broken some laws while trying to do something good & it doesn't whether they are russians or not because people have a habit of making mistakes even i. We are here to simply help each other. If we the normal muslims quarrel over something simple like this,what do you think would happen if the scholars argued like us???
we need to look at things from to different perpectives before we start arguying over something and also agree that we sometimes can be wrong.
If you didn't get my earlier post muharam23 then i would more than happy to post it again.
Concerning your question on touching the Qur'an, i would like to cite for you the following fatwa issued by the late Azharite scholar Sheikh Mustafa Muhammad As-Saerafy, in which he states the following:
“The ruling governing touching the Qur'an or the Mushaf or putting one’s fingers on it applies only to the Arabic text (the contents lying between its two folds). As for the translated copies, with footnotes explaining the meanings of the verses, they are not included under the same ruling.
With regard to the issue of non-Muslims touching the Qur’an, especially non-Arabs, praise be to Allah, nowadays, there are many translations of the meanings of the Glorious Qur’an almost in all world languages.
Thereupon, we maintain that there is nothing wrong with the non-Muslim reading and touching these translations, as the purpose of these translations is to convey the meanings of the Qur’an to all nations in their own mother tongues. Logically, this aim will not be fulfilled unless they touch and turn the leaves of such translated copies.”
Moreover, in his well-known book, Fiqh-us-Sunnah, the late Sheikh Sayyed Sabiq (may Allah bless his soul), adds:
“Abu Bakr Ibn Muhammad narrated from his father, on the authority of his grandfather, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the letter he sent to the people of Yemen, said: “No one is to touch the Qur’an except one who is purified.” This Hadith is reported by An-Nasa’i, Ad-Daraqutni, Al-Bayhaqi, and Al-Athram. Of its chain of transmitters, Ibn `Abdul-Barr said: “It is Mutawatir (having an uninterrupted chain of transmission).”
`Abdullah Ibn `Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) quoted the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as saying: “No one is to touch the Qur’an unless he has purified himself.” (Reported by Al-Haythami in Majma` Az-Zawa’id and he said that its narrators are trustworthy)
Apparently, this Hadith needs discussion. The word “purify” must have one particular meaning here. Therefore, to say that one who is in state of hadath asghar or minor impurity may not touch the Qur’an makes no sense.
Concerning Allah’s statement, “... which none touches save the purified,” (Al-Waqi`ah: 79), actually, the pronoun “which” refers to “the Book kept hidden” (from the preceding verse) and this is also referred to as “the well-preserved tablet,” and the word “purified” refers to the angels, which is similar to the verses, “On honored scrolls, exalted, purified, (set down) by scribes, noble and righteous.” (`Abasa: 13-16)
Ibn `Abbas, Ash-Sha`bi, Ad-Dahak, Zayd Ibn `Ali, Al-Mu’aiyyad Billah, Dawood, Ibn Hazm, and Hammad Ibn Abu Sulayman are of the opinion that one who is in state of Hadath Asghar may touch the Qur’an. Most of the scholars, however, agree that a person in that state may recite the Qur’an without touching it.”