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Is it permissible to discard cardboard boxes bearing names such as "Muhammad" and "Ali," or words similar to those found in the Qur’an, into the trash, given the difficulty and hardship involved in burning them?

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Source: FtawySummarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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If the written Arabic text is devoid of Quranic verses, prophetic hadiths, and the names of prophets and messengers accompanied by specific descriptors, then there is no objection to using it and discarding the cardboard boxes inscribed with Arabic letters and names into the waste bin, without intending dishonor. However, it is disliked to disrespect the names of prophets if others are named after them, or the names of scholars, the righteous predecessors, and Islamic sciences.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

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