The Ruling on Image-Making and Whether It Is a Matter of Scholarly Disagreement
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Many students of knowledge say that the issue of image-making is a matter of scholarly disagreement.
Answer:
You make everything a matter of disagreement, but with whom is the evidence? It is with the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him):Mishkat al-Masabih 4498 Riyad as-Salihin 1682 those who compete with Allah in His creation Sahih Muslim 2110b. The images that a person has made will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection. They will be gathered and it will be said to him: "Breathe life into what you have created," but he will not be able to do so, and he will be punished for it, may Allah protect us from that. And we say there is disagreement in this? Yes, here we have not worshipped by following disagreement; we have worshipped by following the evidence.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Many students of knowledge say that the issue of image-making is a matter of scholarly disagreement.
Answer:
You make everything a matter of disagreement, but with whom is the evidence? It is with the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him):
Everyone who makes representations of things will go to hell
كل مصور في النارThose who will receive the most severe punishment from Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be painters (of living objects).
إن أشد الناس عذابا يوم القيامة المصورونHe who painted pictures in the world would be compelled to breathe soul in them on the Day of Resurrection, but he would not be able to breathe soul (in them).
من صور صورة في الدنيا كلف أن ينفخ فيها الروح يوم القيامة وليس بنافخ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 29 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/كيد الشيطان/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:52)
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