Can I Recite Quran on the Floor If Someone Sleeps on a Bed?

Question:

If in a big room, someone is sleeping on a bed which is on one side of the room, can one sit on the ground on the carpet and recite the Qur’an (in the same room) ?

Answer:

If someone is sleeping on the top, and one is reading the Qur’an on the floor and if the Qur’an is lower than the height of where he is sleeping, then this is disrespect to the Qur’an e Kareem, and if he is reciting the Qur’an e Kareem from memory, then there is no objection to this.

References:

1. Ordinance of Sayyidi Taj ush Shariah, page. 93

[ English Translation ]

Mufti Afthab Cassim al-Qadri Ridawi Noori,

Imam Mustafa Raza Research Center,

Durban, South Africa.