Is it permissible to use a French dictionary that contains oil paintings of nude women and others depicting Jesus and Adam (peace be upon them)?
It is impermissible to use dictionaries and books containing forbidden images, especially pictures of naked women or what they claim to be prophets, because of the clear and explicit authentic hadiths that prohibit images. Among them is the hadith of Umm Salamah, in which she mentioned the church of Abyssinia and the images within it. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Those are a people who, when a righteous servant or a righteous man among them dies, build a place of worship over his grave and make those images in it. Those are the most evil of creation in the sight of Allah."
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