The Doubt That Photographic Image-Making Is the Imprisonment of the Shadow

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Photographers in this age argue that photographic image-making is not considered image-making; because it is the imprisonment of the shadow.

The Shaykh:
And what is it called? We ask them, we say: What do you call it? If you do not call it image-making, call it what you will, teach us what it is called? They do not find a name for it other than that it is an image, image-making, and a photographer, without doubt they call it that. Yes.

The questioner:
And they say that it is.

The Shaykh:
But the shadow is not imprisoned; this is philosophy by which the hadith is not answered. Yes.

The questioner:
And they say, may Allah preserve you, that it did not exist in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh:
The text exists: a generalization from the one who made images. He who made images was cursed, generally, the most severely punished people on the Day of Resurrection are the image-makers, and it was not specified from whom did you take this specification? There is no evidence for the specification except the excuse of the people. Yes, yes. The scholars in our time have issued rulings permitting necessary image-making, because Allah has excepted dire necessity even in eating carrion . And they say that dire necessity calls for it now, so image-making is permissible for the sake of dispensations, for the sake of dire necessity; it is permitted for the sake of dire necessity. Because it has become one of the controls of security and one of the controls of not confusing personalities and in proofs. If it is from the category of dire necessity, it is permitted to the extent of the necessity, to the extent of the dire necessity. Yes.