Is it permissible to pray wearing clothes with images on them, or carrying paper with images on it, or some magazines and newspapers?

Question:
The last questioner says that some of the worshippers enter the mosque wearing clothes with images on them, or carrying with them paper with images on it, or some magazines or newspapers. What is Your Eminence’s guidance regarding this?

Answer:
He should be warned. It is not permissible to mention them, nor to wear clothes with images on them. The prayer is valid, but he should be warned not to wear clothes with images of animals, humans, birds, or anything else. As for something hidden in his pocket, or something in a magazine that is closed, it does not harm him. But if he scratches the heads, they will be at the bottom, because this is in the book or magazine, it is not a cover, it is printed at the end, it is not considered. But if he removes the heads, and the magazine or book remains with him, that is good, from the perspective of obscuring the heads. Because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the head of the statue to be cut off so that it would be like the end of a tree. So if they remove the heads of the images, the prohibited matter is avoided. May Allah guide them all, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his companions.