Photographing Children and Men with a Mobile Phone
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Question:
This is another questioner who says: What is the ruling on photographing children and men with a mobile phone and putting their pictures on WhatsApp?
Answer:
It is not permissible to take pictures by any means, neither with a mobile phone nor with a photographic camera nor by drawing with the hand. Drawing beings with souls is not permissible. Photographing beings with souls is not permissible except out of necessity. For example, a driver’s license photo. A photo. An identity photo. Proof of identity. This is a necessity. Anything other than that, for keeping, for possession, to learn photography, what they call the arts, no, this is forbidden, it is not permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
This is another questioner who says: What is the ruling on photographing children and men with a mobile phone and putting their pictures on WhatsApp?
Answer:
It is not permissible to take pictures by any means, neither with a mobile phone nor with a photographic camera nor by drawing with the hand. Drawing beings with souls is not permissible. Photographing beings with souls is not permissible except out of necessity. For example, a driver’s license photo. A photo. An identity photo. Proof of identity. This is a necessity. Anything other than that, for keeping, for possession, to learn photography, what they call the arts, no, this is forbidden, it is not permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
شرح أحاديث في الفتن والحوادث، باب التغرب في الفتنة — islamhouse.com (1:10:30)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.