Keeping children's photos on the mobile phone and in the album
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to keep photos on the mobile phone or to make an album containing photos for remembrance, such as photos of children?
Answer:
The owl, they say, is a sign of ruin. The bird called the owl is a sign of ruin if it lands on one's house, according to the ignorant. It is not a bird that brings either good or evil, but they believe it announces the death of a person, and some of them take it as a bad omen. They call it the *hammah* and take it as a bad omen. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “There is no *hammah* and no *safar*.”Sunan Ibn Majah 3539
So this is the owl. But as for naming the album this, and I do not know what makes them put photos in it and call it an owl—photos are not to be kept except out of necessity, as we have told you. There is no owl or anything else. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to keep photos on the mobile phone or to make an album containing photos for remembrance, such as photos of children?
Answer:
The owl, they say, is a sign of ruin. The bird called the owl is a sign of ruin if it lands on one's house, according to the ignorant. It is not a bird that brings either good or evil, but they believe it announces the death of a person, and some of them take it as a bad omen. They call it the *hammah* and take it as a bad omen. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “There is no *hammah* and no *safar*.”
There is no ‘Adwa, no omen, no Hamah and no Safar.
لا عدوى ولا طيره ولا هامه ولا صفرSo this is the owl. But as for naming the album this, and I do not know what makes them put photos in it and call it an owl—photos are not to be kept except out of necessity, as we have told you. There is no owl or anything else. Yes.
Source
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