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What is the ruling of Islamic law on making frames for photographs or drawings, knowing that some of these pictures may be indecent?

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Making frames is originally permissible, but it becomes forbidden if made for something forbidden, because the means to a thing takes its ruling. So, what is made for permissible pictures is permissible, and what is made for lewd pictures and propagating falsehood is forbidden, due to His Almighty's saying: "And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression."

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