Is making caricatured figurines of people's faces, and placing them on pre-selected bodies, as a souvenir or a gift, permissible or forbidden?
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Figurines in the form of the known human image are impermissible, and making them is one of the gravest sins, due to the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying: "Indeed, the most severely punished people on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers." (Agreed upon). Trading in them, profiting from them, acquiring them, and gifting them are all forbidden. Whoever makes an image, Allah will punish him until he breathes a soul into it, and he will never breathe a soul into it.
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