What is your advice for the young people who say that image-making is a matter of independent legal reasoning?
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Question:
Some young people, when we tell them that image-making is forbidden, say that the issue is a matter of independent legal reasoning. Is there any advice?
Answer:
The issue is not a matter of independent legal reasoning; there are texts on it. There are texts from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursing the image-makers and informing that they will be the most severely punished of people on the Day of Resurrection. There is no independent legal reasoning when there is a text. If there is a text, we take the text and leave aside people's independent legal reasoning. Yes.
Some young people, when we tell them that image-making is forbidden, say that the issue is a matter of independent legal reasoning. Is there any advice?
Answer:
The issue is not a matter of independent legal reasoning; there are texts on it. There are texts from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursing the image-makers and informing that they will be the most severely punished of people on the Day of Resurrection. There is no independent legal reasoning when there is a text. If there is a text, we take the text and leave aside people's independent legal reasoning. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم للشباب الذين يقولون بأن التصوير مسألة اجتهادية؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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