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What is the ruling on a young man photographing a non-Muslim woman at her request, and is his action permissible, or has he committed a grave transgression?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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A Muslim must glorify the rulings of the religion and be proud of its rituals, and be a caller to Islam. It is forbidden to look at the faces of foreign women without need, so how about their hair and adornments, as Almighty Allah says: (Tell the believing men to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts) [Quran 24:30]. Photographing a woman necessitates looking at her and speaking with her, and it is even more forbidden if she is adorned. The principle is that a Muslim denounces evil, so it would have been more befitting for the young man to invite the woman to Islam and inform her of the virtue of the . He is required to repent and not return to such an act, and he must display the rulings of Islam before non-Muslims.

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