07/11/2025
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📣🚫A call to sisters who post pictures of living beings on their personal WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram accounts...🚫
🔰Scholarly Rulings on the Permissibility of Photography in All Its Forms🔰
👈🔴Q: What is the general ruling on images? I mean, is it permissible for necessary or unnecessary purposes?
☝✅A: Depicting living beings is forbidden, whether through photography, hand-drawn art, or any other means. Possessing images is also forbidden. However, if a person is compelled to do so against their will, such as being required to provide a photo for a passport or citizenship application, it is permissible, though they may feel aversion to being photographed.
📝Permanent Committee
📗 (Islamic-Rulings.tt, Vol. 4, p. 461)
👈🔴Q: Does photography fall under the same ruling as hand-drawn or other tangible forms of image-making?
☝✅A- The correct view, supported by Islamic legal evidence and held by the majority of scholars, is that the evidence prohibiting the depiction of animate beings includes photography and hand-drawn images, whether three-dimensional or not, due to the general nature of the evidence. The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta' (Islamic Legal Rulings) at this Presidency has previously issued a fatwa on this subject, a copy of which is sent to you for further benefit. May Allah grant success, and may peace and blessings be upon His servant and Messenger Muhammad, his family, and his companions.
📝 The Permanent Committee.
📗 (Islamic-Fatwas.tt, Vol. 4, p. 459).
👈🔴Q- What is the ruling on taking photographs for necessity or for decoration?
☝✅A- Depicting living beings is prohibited except in cases of necessity, such as taking photographs for identification purposes, passports, or photographing criminals for their apprehension and identification if they commit a crime and attempt to flee, and similar situations that are essential.
📝 The Committee, chaired by Ibn Baz
📗 (Islamic-Fatwas.tt, Vol. 4, p. 46).