KORANS tend to get overworked in pious places like Pakistan. So much so that they sometimes fall apart, in which case they must be disposed of in an Islamically correct manner: by casting them in flowing water, burying them in the ground, or by burning, if the first two options aren’t possible.
Burning a Koran is permissible under certain circumstances
Well, devout Muslim student Junaid Ahmed, 20, who attended a seminary attached to Imdadia Mosque on Rawalpindi Road in Chakwal, chose the latter, as a well designed to hold discarded bits of the Koran was already full. [The Freethinker] Read more
