Is a fine arts teacher who teaches students to draw animate beings, such as animals, committing a sin?
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Drawing animate beings is Islamically forbidden. A teacher who refrains from teaching it will be rewarded for his righteous action. When it is necessary to illustrate scientific information, it is permissible to draw the body without the head, or the head without facial features, or to draw from the back; this is because necessity is determined by its extent.
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