The Ruling on Photography with a Camera

Question:
What is the correct view regarding photography with a camera?

Answer:
The correct position is the prohibition of image-making in all cases, whether by camera or by the means mentioned. The recording is garbled here regarding the types of image-making. Generally, image-making is forbidden due to the generality of the hadiths concerning image-making, the warnings against it, the curse, the anger of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), and the torment of the Fire. There is no distinction made between one type of image-making and another. However, the scholars differed regarding two-dimensional images.
Necessary images, such as those for identity documents, passports, and driver's licenses, have become necessary for people today. People have become such that they cannot reach their needs without them; they cannot travel, move, reside, or even study, entering a school or institute, or even complete a procedure, without them. This is a necessity. When a necessity arises, it permits the prohibited, but only to the extent of that necessity.
As for image-making as a hobby, an art, or for teaching, it does not exist [as a permissible exception]. It remains subject to the original ruling, the prohibition, and the warning. Permission was granted only for necessary items. In the case of necessity. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O brothers, by virtue of the Faris Audio Library in Jeddah, the number of this tape is fifty-seven, and the time is ten o'clock.