The Ruling on Photography with Video and Mobile Phones
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! A number of questions have come in asking about the ruling on photography with video and mobile phones.
Answer:
Depicting the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is forbidden. Photography is forbidden absolutely, and the tool used for it was not specified. The tool was not specified, whether it is drawing by hand, carving, or photography. All of it falls under the term "photography," and people call it photography; everyone calls it photography. So whatever is photography is forbidden, except what is necessitated by dire necessity. Except what is necessitated by dire necessity, it is permissible to the extent of the necessity. Yes.
Your Eminence the Shaykh! A number of questions have come in asking about the ruling on photography with video and mobile phones.
Answer:
Depicting the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is forbidden. Photography is forbidden absolutely, and the tool used for it was not specified. The tool was not specified, whether it is drawing by hand, carving, or photography. All of it falls under the term "photography," and people call it photography; everyone calls it photography. So whatever is photography is forbidden, except what is necessitated by dire necessity. Except what is necessitated by dire necessity, it is permissible to the extent of the necessity. Yes.
Source
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