Image-making of animals, plants, and trees
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on image-making of animals, plants, and trees? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is not permissible to make images of animals that possess souls. As for things that do not possess souls, such as trees, mountains, buildings, rivers, and seas, there is nothing wrong with them. What is called natural scenery is permissible. The prohibition applies to making images of things that possess souls, based on the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)Sahih Muslim 2110b This indicates that what does not possess a soul is not included in the hadith. Yes.
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on image-making of animals, plants, and trees? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is not permissible to make images of animals that possess souls. As for things that do not possess souls, such as trees, mountains, buildings, rivers, and seas, there is nothing wrong with them. What is called natural scenery is permissible. The prohibition applies to making images of things that possess souls, based on the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)
would be compelled to breathe soul in them
كلف أن ينفخ فيها الروح
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-47-منهج أهل السنة والجماعة|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:05:39)
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