Publishing a children's drawing competition in an Islamic magazine
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Question:
Islam forbids image-making in all its forms, as we have heard from the fatwas of our scholars. Unfortunately, the Saudi magazine al-Da'wah published an announcement for the sixth annual children's drawing competition, which is sponsored by the Aramco company. Why do they publish this when it is an Islamic magazine? And in the picture, there is a girl and a boy.
Answer:
We have not heard of this from anyone but you now. One looks at it, and there is no doubt that image-making is forbidden, as it is a challenge to the divine power or an imitation of Allah's creation. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) warned against this and against the image-makers. If the al-Da'wah magazine published something like this, we have not heard of it except from someone like you. It must be held accountable for this, if Allah wills. Yes, yes.
Islam forbids image-making in all its forms, as we have heard from the fatwas of our scholars. Unfortunately, the Saudi magazine al-Da'wah published an announcement for the sixth annual children's drawing competition, which is sponsored by the Aramco company. Why do they publish this when it is an Islamic magazine? And in the picture, there is a girl and a boy.
Answer:
We have not heard of this from anyone but you now. One looks at it, and there is no doubt that image-making is forbidden, as it is a challenge to the divine power or an imitation of Allah's creation. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) warned against this and against the image-makers. If the al-Da'wah magazine published something like this, we have not heard of it except from someone like you. It must be held accountable for this, if Allah wills. Yes, yes.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 56 — archive.org (29:00)
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