Is it permissible to sell and buy toys in the shape of humans and animals after their features are obscured?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The honorable scholar asks: Are toys made in the shape of humans and animals, i.e., children's toys, statues and idols? Is it permissible to sell and buy them? And if some are three-dimensional and the features of the human or animal do not appear on them, such as the eyes being closed, or the eyes, mouth, and ears being closed, is it permissible to bring them to children in this state, given that they are in the form of living beings?
Answer:
It is forbidden, whether it is a drawing, a photograph, or a three-dimensional statue. It is haram (forbidden), because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited image-making and cursed the image-makers, informing that they will be the most severely punished people on the Day of Resurrection. Is it not permissible to buy images, nor sell them, nor keep them? Rather, it is obligatory to destroy them or degrade them so that they are degraded.
As for children's toys, if they are in the shape of animals or birds, this is a matter of disagreement among the scholars, and the correct view is that they are not permissible. How do we raise our children on images and statues?
This is a bad comfort. The correct view is that it is not permissible, not even for the owners. There are many toys that have no prohibition, such as cars, pictures of cars, pictures of equipment, things that have no souls, moving things that have no souls, which suffice in place of images. However, if the face is obscured, there is no prohibition in that, because the image is the face; so if the face is obscured, there is no prohibition in that, and it is not called an image.
May Allah reward you. The honorable scholar asks: Are toys made in the shape of humans and animals, i.e., children's toys, statues and idols? Is it permissible to sell and buy them? And if some are three-dimensional and the features of the human or animal do not appear on them, such as the eyes being closed, or the eyes, mouth, and ears being closed, is it permissible to bring them to children in this state, given that they are in the form of living beings?
Answer:
It is forbidden, whether it is a drawing, a photograph, or a three-dimensional statue. It is haram (forbidden), because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited image-making and cursed the image-makers, informing that they will be the most severely punished people on the Day of Resurrection. Is it not permissible to buy images, nor sell them, nor keep them? Rather, it is obligatory to destroy them or degrade them so that they are degraded.
As for children's toys, if they are in the shape of animals or birds, this is a matter of disagreement among the scholars, and the correct view is that they are not permissible. How do we raise our children on images and statues?
This is a bad comfort. The correct view is that it is not permissible, not even for the owners. There are many toys that have no prohibition, such as cars, pictures of cars, pictures of equipment, things that have no souls, moving things that have no souls, which suffice in place of images. However, if the face is obscured, there is no prohibition in that, because the image is the face; so if the face is obscured, there is no prohibition in that, and it is not called an image.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز بيع وشراء الألعاب على شكل الإنسان والحيوان بعد طمس ملامحها؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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