Images in Books and Their Effect on Preventing the Angels from Entering
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: As for books that contain images, do these images present in the books prevent the angels from entering the house?
Answer:
If they are kept for the sake of loving them and admiring them, yes, they do. But if they are despised and not respected, and have no value, being trampled on, or if they are in a book where the owner of the book did not intend them, wanting only the benefit from the book, then these are despised and have no value. Yes. The consideration is the intention of the one who keeps the images: what is his need for them? Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: As for books that contain images, do these images present in the books prevent the angels from entering the house?
Answer:
If they are kept for the sake of loving them and admiring them, yes, they do. But if they are despised and not respected, and have no value, being trampled on, or if they are in a book where the owner of the book did not intend them, wanting only the benefit from the book, then these are despised and have no value. Yes. The consideration is the intention of the one who keeps the images: what is his need for them? Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثاني عشر في علاج مرض القلب بالشيطان — islamhouse.com (1:03:10)
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