Images and Photography
385 questions
Is it permissible to carve wood in the shape of an animal without eyes or a mouth, under the pretext that the image resides in the face?
What is the name of the mosque known as "The Messenger's Mosque" in Medina, and are there photographs available of it?
What is the ruling on photography, and does the sin fall only on the photographer? What is the ruling on a woman performing Tarawih prayers in a mosque where there are innovations? And what is the ruling on praying in a mosque built on usurped land?
What is the ruling on collecting pictures of models with the intention of keeping the displayed dress designs, then modifying them to be modest and tailoring them?
What is the ruling on photography in the mosque?
I have embroidered the image of an animal on a garment, so is this forbidden or permissible?
Is it obligatory to return pictures of Pharaohs' statues to one's father, or to destroy them, knowing that they might be a trust or a gift, and the father might not dispose of them?
What is the ruling on drawing by hand the shadow of a person or animal on clothes and praying while it is present on the garment?
What is the ruling on products that have pictures of complete or incomplete mythical creatures, and what is the ruling on buying them, and what is the ruling on these pictures?
Why do those who consider photography forbidden appear on television to issue a fatwa to that effect, knowing that the end does not justify the means?
What is the expiation for a strange man photographing a recently married woman in her wedding dress?
What is the ruling on hanging frames of animated pictures in children's rooms, and what is the ruling on hanging frames in general?
Am I entitled to demand all my pictures in which I appear with my adornment and without a head covering from my husband's family, and if they do not give them to me, are they sinful and am I sinful?
What is the ruling on drinking from a cup that has a picture of a living being on it?
Is drawing animate beings by hand, and children's TV series and games that include animate beings, and photographic images in newspapers and magazines, and religious satellite channels, considered among the forbidden forms of image-making?
Is it permissible to place a doll on the window to scare away pigeons?
Does the presence of images and drawings of animate beings in the house prevent the acceptance of prayers (du’a) and seeking forgiveness (istighfar), and what should a questioner do who has no authority over her household members who bring them in, knowing that angels do not enter a house in which there are images?
Is it permissible to keep pictures of a veiled girl without her hijab, knowing that she does not show them to men and considers them memories?
What is the ruling on looking at pictures of children and cartoon pictures?
Why do your fatwas tend to prohibit photography despite its permissibility according to most contemporary scholars, and why do your fatwas concerning magic and jinn entrench backwardness, stating that whoever denies the jinn possessing humans is rejecting what is found in the Qur’an and Sunnah, even though many scholars deny this and there are no definitive and conclusive texts proving it?
What is the ruling on owning a mobile phone that has a permanent cross sign that cannot be removed?
Is it permissible to draw and sell garments that are subject to contempt and contain images, and what is the reason for permitting their use if drawing and selling them is forbidden?
What is the ruling on images on eating utensils?
What is the ruling on photographing a bride in her wedding dress and saving the photos on a mobile phone or computer, knowing that the person taking the pictures is a committed sister or a commoner?