Playing a recording of Qur’aan when putting someone on hold
Question

                Sometimes we have to put a caller on hold and ask him to wait for a little while because we are speaking to another, more important, caller, and that may take a long time. Or we are putting a caller through to the person he wants to speak to, so he has to wait for some time until that person answers. During the waiting period the caller can listen to some suitable recorded material. We wanted to fill the waiting period with religious material, whether it is recording of the Qur’aan or of hadeeth. What is the ruling on doing that? Please note that the conversations may be serious or lighthearted, depending on who is calling.
Praise be to Allah.
    This is not something that is prescribed or allowed in 
    sharee’ah, and it may be a cause of the Qur’aan being mistreated and not 
    respected properly. The same applies to the hadeeth of the Prophet  
    (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). 

    The Standing Committee was asked a similar question and 
    replied: 
The Qur’aan is the word of Allaah, so it must 
    be respected and protected against anything inappropriate such as mixing it 
    with jokes before or after it or using it as a kind of entertainment or to 
    fill spare time as in the case you described. Rather it should be recited 
    primarily as an act of worship and in order to draw closer to Allaah, 
    pondering its meanings and seeking to learn lessons from it, not just to 
    relax and fill spare time. The same applies to the hadeeth of the Prophet 
     (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him); it is not permissible to 
    mix it with jokes and laughter, rather it must be protected from anything 
    inappropriate and when one reads it, that should be with the intention of 
    learning the rulings of sharee’ah and acting upon them. 

    Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 
    4/57-58.

    And Allaah knows best.