What is the ruling on sending cartoon images and videos of animate beings for the purpose of encouragement, knowing that watching cartoons is permissible if they are free of impermissible elements?
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Watching animated films is permissible if they are free from Shariah prohibitions. If watching them is permissible, then sending them to others is also permissible. There is no objection to sending animated images via electronic media.
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