Histories of the Indian Army in the early twentieth century give a great deal of attention to the arrangements made by British officials to accommodate differences in spiritual worldviews and their corresponding practices. However, the plural and disruptive materialities of these accommodations require more sustained examination. This article considers the use of sacred texts, specifically the miniaturized Qur’ans gifted to Indian Army soldiers in the First World War. Building on scholarship that discusses the divinely endowed agencies of these objects, this article uses traces of tactile engagement observed through object-led research to argue that their auspicious and protective powers might be understood as activated by and serving the soldiers’ bodies.