Touching The Holy Quran Pearls (03/08)

It is not permissible to perform Tayammum in order to touch the Holy Quran, to perform Sajdah Tilawat, or to perform Sajdah Shukr [prostration of gratefulness], when water is in reach. 

(Bahar-e-Shari’at, vol. 1, part 2, pp. 352)