Disabled person asking about putting pages of the Mus-haf in spiral-bound form
Question

                There is a person who has a disability and it is difficult for him to turn the pages of the Mus-haf and stop them from turning back. Is it permissible for him to put them in spiral-bound form instead of in regular book form?.
Praise be to Allah.
    It does not seem that there is anything wrong with using 
    spiral-bound form rather than regular book form to make it easy to turn the 
    pages of the Mus-haf and stop them from turning back. It is obligatory to 
    respect the book of Allaah, both pages and cover, but without going to 
    extremes. Some of the scholars said that it is mustahabb to stand up for the 
    Qur’aan out of respect for it, but this is an exaggeration that goes against 
    sharee’ah. The greatest respect we can show for the Qur’aan is to read it 
    and act upon it. 

    Some of the Taabi’een ruled that it is permissible to touch 
    the Qur’aan using a strap for one who is impure in the sense of minor or 
    major impurity. So there is more reason for the pages of the Qur’aa not be 
    put in spiral-bound form than that. 

    Al-Bukhaari (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: 

    Chapter on a man reciting Qur’aan in his wife’s lap when she 
    is menstruating. Abu Waa’il used to send his servant when she was 
    menstruating to Abu Razeen to bring the Mus-haf, and she would hold it with 
    a strap. 

    Saheeh al-Bukhaari (1/114) 

    Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: 

    The phrase “and Abu Waa’il used to…” refers to the famous 
    Taabi’i, the companion of Ibn Mas’ood. This report of his was described as 
    mawsool by Ibn Abi Shaybah with a saheeh isnaad. 

    The phrase “with a strap” refers to a string with which it 
    was tied to its bag. That means that it is permissible for a menstruating 
    woman to carry the Mus-haf without touching it directly. 

    Fath al-Baari (1/402). 

    Ibn al-Mundhir (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:  

    Al-Hakam and Hammaad said concerning a man who touches the 
    Mus-haf when he is not taahir (pure): If it is by means of a strap, there is 
    nothing wrong with it.

    Al-Awsat 
    (2/101). 

    This allowance on the part of these imams – and the Hanafis 
    and Hanbalis agreed with them – is because they thought that touching the 
    Mus-haf with a strap did not count as touching the Mus-haf itself. They did 
    not regard it as permissible for anyone who was not taahir to touch it. 

    Some of the scholars ruled that it is permissible to turn the 
    pages of the Mus-haf with a stick and the like, for the one who wants to 
    read Qur’aan when he does not have wudoo’, so that he will not touch it with 
    his hand. This is the view of the majority apart from the Maalikis. 

    In al-Mawsoo’ah al-Fiqhiyyah (38/7) it says: 

    If one who is not taahir turns the pages of the Mus-haf with 
    a stick in his hand, that is permissible according to the Hanafis and 
    Hanbalis, but it is not permissible according to the Maalikis. Among the 
    Shaafa’is, al-Nawawi stated that it is permissible, because it is not 
    touching or carrying it. He said: This was the view of the Iraqis among the 
    companions of al-Shaafa’i. 

    End quote.

     What this disabled brother is doing is permissible because 
    he has an excuse, which is the disability that is preventing him from being 
    able to turn the pages of the Mus-haf and stop them from turning back. His 
    action is not contrary to showing respect to the Book of Allaah as 
    prescribed, rather his keenness to read the Book of Allaah and learn it as 
    he is able to is a sign of respecting and honouring the Book of Allaah. 

    We ask Allaah to bless him with rapid healing and to raise 
    him in status, and to make it easy for him to memorize the Qur'aan and act 
    upon it. 
And Allaah knows 
    best.