Publishing images of women who display their adornment in local newspapers
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The questioner:
They obeyed the command of Allah and the command of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), but we see in our local newspapers women who display their adornment, even though the press regulations prohibit this. Last Thursday, the newspaper Al-Riyadh published on its last page a picture of the most beautiful of women, intending for our women to imitate them. What is your ruling on this?
The Shaykh:
We ask Allah to help us in combating this. It exists, and we ask Allah to make it beneficial. There is no doubt that the callers to falsehood sell these pictures in the Saudi newspaper under the name of fashion. There is no doubt that he has many points regarding this, and it is fashion. He is confused by this by every means, but we ask Allah to help us against it.
They obeyed the command of Allah and the command of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), but we see in our local newspapers women who display their adornment, even though the press regulations prohibit this. Last Thursday, the newspaper Al-Riyadh published on its last page a picture of the most beautiful of women, intending for our women to imitate them. What is your ruling on this?
The Shaykh:
We ask Allah to help us in combating this. It exists, and we ask Allah to make it beneficial. There is no doubt that the callers to falsehood sell these pictures in the Saudi newspaper under the name of fashion. There is no doubt that he has many points regarding this, and it is fashion. He is confused by this by every means, but we ask Allah to help us against it.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 58 — archive.org (40:17)
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