Images and Photography
385 questions
What is the ruling on wearing clothes that contain images of animate beings, and does the warning apply to the one who wears them?
What is the ruling on video-recorded religious sermons and admonitions featuring real people?
Is drawing faces and depicting people and animals forbidden?
Is accusing someone of sodomy an injustice to them, based on the appearance of signs indicating their engagement in acts leading to sodomy, and does the accused have the right to litigation and supplication?
What is the ruling on photography with a still camera or a video camera if it is guaranteed (to be permissible)? And is the questioner sinful if she prints computer-generated images that are not her creation and are not hand-drawn, but are rather images of people that she merely prints?
Is modifying the lighting in a photograph to obscure the facial features (of a Niqabi woman) considered among the forbidden types of photography?
What should a woman do about her photos and videos stored on her electronic devices or on those of her Mahrams and female friends?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding marriage to a girl whose father refuses photography or greeting elders by bowing down to a ninety-degree angle or sitting cross-legged for men and kneeling for women, and threatens with a curse if this is not done, knowing that the young man fears falling into what is forbidden?
What is the ruling on photographing cadavers for study purposes when the photography was done without the knowledge of the doctors, even though it was previously permitted, and the student who took the pictures is not part of the group?
What is the ruling on taking pictures with a phone camera, with the images remaining on the phone without necessity, and does the same ruling apply to videos?
Is it permissible for the bride and groom to be photographed in a studio for remembrance, with the studio owner retaining and displaying the photos, and what is the ruling on photographing them in their wedding, whether pictures or video, especially since the bride is in her full adornment and the photographer may request intimate shots?
Is digital photography and keeping it for memories permissible? Are the images that the Prophet ﷺ warned against the idols worshipped? What should be done if relatives are not convinced of the impermissibility of photography? Is it permissible to destroy photos without their permission?
Who dissented from the majority opinion on the ruling concerning the drawing of animate beings, what are their evidences, and is their dissenting opinion considered valid?
Is photographing hotels and resorts that serve alcoholic beverages, focusing on the places themselves rather than the products or drinks, considered an act of promoting alcohol, which is forbidden by Islamic law?
What is the preponderant ruling concerning the photographic imaging of animate beings with a camera, and what is the ruling on sharing or downloading these images from the internet?
What is the ruling regarding mixed-gender group photos of university students, both male and female, that are hung and distributed?
Is it permissible to draw a nearly complete face for the purpose of expressing the issues of the Muslim nation, showing one eye, a nose, and a smiling mouth, along with some blood, while avoiding showing the body, neck, or skull? And is it permissible to draw the faces of masked resistance fighters, showing only their eyes?
Why are there no images of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the world?
What is the ruling on drawing hairstyles without facial features, and is watching comedy anime and investigating with the sound muted permissible?
What is the ruling on placing pictures of sons and daughters in the workplace, and hanging pictures of deceased persons in the home?
Is keeping photographic images for the purpose of remembrance permissible?
How do those who permit photography respond to the argument concerning the attachment of hearts to images and the fear of polytheism, and to the command to obliterate every image, especially since Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen permitted photography but forbade keeping the images? And is it permissible to display incomplete images?
What is the ruling on filming and publishing video clips of a Muslim suffering or exposed to a calamity, or being beaten or dying, and what are the Shar'i controls for that?
Does the Hadith, "I have been entrusted with three: every stubborn tyrant, and every one who invokes another god with Allah, and the image-makers," include those who take photographs with a camera?