Writing Qur’aan on mobile phones in something other than the ‘Uthmaani script

 

A computer company is developing an adhkaar program to work on mobile phones. The description of the program is: 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 change anything 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 something similar 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 ‘Uthmaani Mus-hafs in [rules of tajweed]. End quote from
al-Itqaan fi ‘Uloom al-Qur’aan (1/250). 

All of this applies if what is meant 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 do in 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
showing some verses on the screens of mobile phones in something other than
the ‘Uthmaani script, if it is not possible to show them in the ‘Uthmaani
script, but one should take care to make sure than the verses that are
written in this manner are those that are 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.