1. Is drawing and manufacturing detailed and precise animate beings for medical, educational, and research purposes permissible in Islamic law, and what is the ruling on making statues for these purposes? 2. What is the ruling on drawing scenes that include human and animal images for the purpose of assisting directors in advertisements, and must these drawings be disposed of after the project ends? 3. What is the ruling on creating comic stories and animated cartoons for children, adolescents, and families that contain fictional characters and non-existent creatures, with the aim of teaching virtues and morals and competing with harmful Western works? And what are the Islamic legal limits for that? 4. Is it permissible to create a video game that requires drawing a human character, or is it better to look for another idea to avoid drawing animate beings?
Drawing animate beings is prohibited, unless there is an educational need, in which case it is permissible to draw only certain parts, such as just the head, or the chest, or the abdomen, or for the image to be headless. This is because an image loses its prohibition by removing what life cannot sustain without. However, if the missing part in the image does not affect life, such as an eye, hand, or mouth, then it remains prohibited.
It is permissible to create comic books and animated cartoons for children if they serve a valid purpose, such as educating children, or for da'wah (inviting to Islam), or teaching Islamic values. Among what has been exempted from prohibition are dolls for girls, for the purpose of training young girls in raising children and managing their homes.
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