Are three-dimensional renderings of humans—which are added to mosque designs to illustrate their dimensions and how to enter and exit them—considered forbidden, knowing that the intention behind their creation is good?
Drawing animate beings is Islamically forbidden by consensus if it is three-dimensional, and the image-makers will be punished on the Day of Judgment, and it will be said to them: "Give life to what you have created." As for drawing by hand on canvases, walls, and other surfaces, it is forbidden according to the majority of scholars, due to the generality of the hadiths which did not differentiate between three-dimensional and non-three-dimensional. It is permissible to draw inanimate objects such as trees, stones, and rivers. Some scholars permitted that which has an incomplete creation, an incompleteness that makes it impossible for the animate being to live with it, such as a headless image, because it was reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) commanded that a garment containing images be cut up, and it was then made into two cushions to be stepped upon.
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