Is the cartoon series "99 Heroes," shown on MBC3, whose protagonists bear names similar to the Beautiful Names of Allah, considered a clever way to facilitate memorizing these Names, or is it an embodiment and mockery of them, and what is the ruling on watching it?
The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta issued a fatwa prohibiting a cartoon series broadcast on the "mbc3" channel. This is because it embodies Allah's Beautiful Names (Asma al-Husna) in cartoon characters, such as the attribute "Al-Jabbar" (The Compeller/The Omnipotent), which is depicted in a character with a strong physique and prominent muscles. The Committee considers this work invalid because it represents Allah's names and attributes, and it is incumbent upon a Muslim to believe in Allah's names and attributes as they were revealed in the Quran and Sunnah, without distortion, denial, anthropomorphism, or similitude, in accordance with His (the Almighty's) saying: "There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing."
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