What is the ruling on the statement of one who says: "Our Lord did not send down the Messenger, may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him, for us to put him in a frame on the wall," and what is the ruling on the one who says it?
There is no harm in the aforementioned statement, nor on its speaker, as it does not appear to contain any insult or denigration of the Messenger, peace be upon him. The intent behind it is the necessity of following him and not replacing that with hollow displays, such as hanging his name on the wall. The speaker intended placing his name in the frame, not his noble self, and this is a matter of metaphorically using the name for the named, and linguistic metaphors allow for this.
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