Is it obligatory to break a statue in human form that has no clear features, and can it be inhabited by jinn?
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The statue must be broken and removed from the house, due to what is mentioned in the hadiths: "Angles do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a statue" and "Do not leave any image without effacing it." Also, it may lead to exaggeration and veneration, as happened with the people of Noah. As for jinn dwelling in the statue, this cannot be stated with certainty, as it is part of the unseen. However, biographers mentioned that a female jinn used to inhabit Al-Uzza.
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