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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

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In this fatwa:

It is allowed to enter into the bathroom with a computer chip that happens to contain a recording of the Quran, since it is not considered to be a written copy of the Quran at all.

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Answering your question, Sheikh Mustafa Umar, President of California Islamic University, states:

A Muslim should not bring the Quran into the bathroom. This ruling applies to the Quran being written on paper.

As for a digital recording on cell phones, its existence is on a memory chip along with thousands of other programs. This recording is not written in any form like a piece of paper.

Therefore, it is allowed to enter into the bathroom with a computer chip that happens to contain a recording of the Quran, since it is not considered to be a written copy of the Quran at all.

However, you should not listen to it while in the bathroom.

Almighty Allah knows best.