Is it permissible for a wife to take photographs of herself and create a paper album as a memento of her marriage, knowing that photography is forbidden?
If the pictures are to be kept away from the sight of non-mahram men, it is better to avoid photography for memories, out of consideration for those who deem photography absolutely forbidden, and due to the inability to guarantee that the pictures will not reach men, and because scholars differ on the permissibility of keeping pictures without necessity. Sheikh Ibn 'Uthaymeen mentioned that possessing pictures is not permissible except out of necessity, and that angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture.
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