The ruling on hanging pictures of the exalted and forcing the president to place them

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, is it permissible to hang pictures of the most respected of presidents and leaders? Knowing that it is impossible for them to be worshipped? And what is the ruling if your boss at work forces you to put them in your office, and you fear being fired from your job?

Answer:
This is not permissible. Altering the image is not permissible; it is forbidden. This is the action of his people. The difference between this and the action of his people, and his statement that it is impossible, that it is impossible for it to be, for example, a mistake, meaning this is what we do not know about the people’s current attachment to pictures, shrines, and graves, so it has become impossible. It has not become impossible. Rather, one does not look at the present time; one looks to the future, because if people see these pictures, they will say, “The scholars and the people did not know of them except that there was evil in them, because the scholars were caring for the people at that time.”