Ruling on attending a wedding feast that includes image-making

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Many wedding feasts are not free from forbidden image-making, and if I do not attend, they consider it a severing of family ties. His question is: Is it permissible for me to attend it, following the example of 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him and grant him satisfaction) when 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: Go

Answer:
In the churches, there are images in the churches among the Christians; that is from the religion of the Christians. As for image-making now, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade image-making, and the scholars have excepted from it only what is for dire necessity. For dire necessity, Allah the Exalted said: . Image-making is permissible for dire necessity. Other than that, it is forbidden. Image-making for memories. Image-making for collection, and the like. He keeps it with him for art. Image-making for the arts, as they say. This is forbidden. It is not permissible to make images of beings with souls. As for making images of trees and rivers, and mountains, and what has no soul, there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.