What is the ruling on placing a background image in Word 2003 documents that contains a Quranic verse and a noble Hadith (a scale with the verse inside it: ﴿So judge between the people with truth and do not follow [personal] inclination, lest it lead you astray from the way of Allah. Indeed, those who go astray from the way of Allah will have a severe punishment for having forgotten the Day of Account.﴾, and the Hadith: "You bring your disputes to me, and I am only a human being. It may be that one of you is more eloquent in his plea than another, so if I give a judgment to anyone of you concerning something that is a right of his brother, then I am only cutting off for him a piece of Hellfire, so he should not take anything from it.")? And does this action violate the sanctity of the Holy Quran?
God has urged the glorification of His sacred rites and symbols. Scholars have prohibited entering impure places with anything written therein that contains Qur'an or Hadith, in order to safeguard the religion, and they have enjoined the preservation of writings that contain the name of Allah or verses. Nevertheless, there is no harm in writing a verse from the Qur'an for purposes that do not involve its degradation, especially in the judicial field, to remind a person of the seriousness of failing to uphold justice.
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