Images and Photography
385 questions
Is it obligatory to act upon the father's will after his death regarding the prohibition of photographing his daughters, and what is the ruling on refraining from issuing national identity cards for this reason?
Is drawing faces and their features with a pencil, without the rest of the body, forbidden? Is the ruling on drawing only the eye sufficient? Is placing anime pictures or cartoon pictures permissible? Is using cracked software for personal use only permissible?
Is it permissible to draw animate beings in full, while covering a part of the body without which life cannot endure, such as the belly or the lower half, with a sheet or an abaya? Or is drawing only the upper half of a person leaning on a fence permissible?
Is it permissible to acquire dolls if they are to be used as pillows for adults or for reclining upon?
Is it impermissible for a university student to print an additional 200 pages—by exploiting a loophole in the university's printing system—given that the university allocates only 50 pages per student, and there is significant wastage of printing paper at the university?
What is the ruling on designing a video compiling children's pictures with Islamic songs?
Does television and mobile phone photography fall under the prohibition of images, or are they exempt from the mentioned warning because they are non-permanent digital systems?
What is the ruling on throwing cans and wrappers, on which are images of holy places like the Grand Mosque, the Prophet's Mosque, and the Kaaba, into the trash?
What is the ruling on electronic games, cartoons, and animation films that depict people and make animals and inanimate objects speak, and is it permissible to create characters using graphics software?
What is the ruling on girls' dress-up games that contain drawings of immodest girls?
What is the ruling on eating from plates that have drawings of a bride without a lawful head covering, and what is the ruling on using cups that have zodiac signs on them? Is it permissible to keep an expensive figurine that has pictures of Chinese women with uncovered hair? And is it permissible for a male to look at hand-drawn images of women with uncovered hair or wearing trousers in children's magazines or cartoons?
How can people be attracted to Islamic films that are free of photography, drawing, and indecencies, while it is necessary for the scenes to contain images to attract children; and is it permissible to show the cross and the people of the cross in Islamic films that talk about the Crusades, and to show unveiled women in films that talk about hijab?
Is it permissible for a wife to take photographs of herself and create a paper album as a memento of her marriage, knowing that photography is forbidden?
Is it permissible to create a concise, illustrated book about the Prophet's prayer, peace be upon him, excerpted from Sheikh Al-Albani's book, by sufficing with some hadiths for each characteristic, and then distributing it?
Is the electronic game player considered content with being photographed? And does the ruling differ between adults and minors despite the player's intention to enjoy themselves? What is the ruling on strategic games with small human figurines? And do they fall under the ruling of prohibited photography?
What should a Muslim young man do who lives in Russia and rents a house from a Christian woman, and he found a cross in the house, knowing that he does not have the right to throw it away? Is it permissible for him to hide it until the end of the rental contract?
Why are the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque being photographed, even though photography is forbidden?
Is it permissible to watch, listen to, and benefit from visual, audio, and written materials available on the internet, which are marked with "Copying or reproducing this material is prohibited without the publisher's permission," or "All rights reserved," without purchasing the original copy, given the financial inability to do so?
Is it permissible to show images of hands only in videos without the rest of the body appearing?
What is the ruling on drawing half of a living being's face from the side, or covering the other half with hair or a hat? What is the ruling on drawing living beings from behind? And what is the ruling on separating the head from the body in drawing?
Are pictures of animate beings that have no head also forbidden?
Is it permissible to photograph after the client refuses unless it is for rent, knowing that photography is prohibited unless it is for rent? So, is it permissible to photograph with the employees' permission, or to photograph in exchange for taking some or all of the returns?
Is it permissible to wear clothes bearing the Lacoste crocodile logo and to liken oneself to it? And is the prayer valid while wearing such clothes?
Is not watching cartoons considered an affirmation of the evil of drawing (or depiction) through illustration?