Printing Images
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Praise be to Allah alone, and may prayers and peace be upon the one after whom there is no prophet. And after that: The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta has reviewed what was sent to His Eminence the Grand Mufti from the questioner: the General Director of the General Administration for Awareness and Guidance in the General Presidency for the Affairs of Promoting Virtue and Forbidding Vice, and referred to the Committee by the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars with number (6089) and date 24/6/1423 AH. The questioner asked a question, the text of which is: I submit to your Excellency a promotional flyer (for Markets .....) which includes printing images of boys and girls on a cake, knowing that the location of (Markets ....) is at: (...) and it has branches in the (...) district and on (...) street, as is clear from the attached flyer.
After the Committee studied the question, it answered that it is not permissible to print images of living beings on a cake or any other food, as it is established that the
Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited image-making and cursed the image-makers, and because that is not consistent with the gratitude for blessings that Allah the Exalted prescribed and promised more for, where He said:[Ibrahim 14:7] .
After the Committee studied the question, it answered that it is not permissible to print images of living beings on a cake or any other food, as it is established that the
Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited image-making and cursed the image-makers, and because that is not consistent with the gratitude for blessings that Allah the Exalted prescribed and promised more for, where He said:
If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.' "
لَئِنْ شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ وَلَئِنْ كَفَرْتُمْ إِنَّ عَذَابِي لَشَدِيدٌ
Source
www.alifta.gov.sa
The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.