Is it permissible to keep a picture of a girl you loved and wanted to marry but were not destined to be with, knowing that you are now married and have four children, and she is also married?
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It is forbidden to keep pictures for remembrance, due to the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture." The sin is greater if the picture is of a foreign (non-mahram) woman and she is married. The questioner must repent, tear up or burn the picture, and repent if any Sharia violation occurred with the subject of the picture.
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