1. Are clothes bearing a forbidden symbol (such as a cross) considered ritually impure (نجسة) and do they contaminate what is around them? 2. Is buying a mobile phone with the intention of imitating a person who does not pray, without being aware of the impermissibility of such imitation, considered disbelief (kufr)? What is the ruling on using it for necessities or entertainment? And if one sells it and buys another with its price, does that make the money unlawful? 3. Is imitating disbelievers considered disbelief (kufr) if done with the intention of imitating them, or is it always disbelief, or are there cases where it is merely unlawful?
Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 2026
We advise you to ignore these whisperings (), as the cross and forbidden symbols do not render clothes impure. There is no harm in buying a phone resembling someone who does not pray, nor in benefiting from it or selling it. Resembling disbelievers is not disbelief unless one intends to resemble them in an act of their disbelief. "Whoever resembles a people is one of them," and the least state of this is prohibition.
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