The analogy of photographic imaging to a mirror
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, who analogizes photographic imaging and photographs to a mirror?
The Shaykh:
A mirror, my brother, is not imaging a shadow that moves; if you leave it, it goes. The photograph remains for hundreds of years until it is torn; it stays. This is a fallacy.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: I have a relative
The Shaykh:
Yes, water, if you stand on it, an image appears. Do you say this is imaging? What is this imaging? Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, who analogizes photographic imaging and photographs to a mirror?
The Shaykh:
A mirror, my brother, is not imaging a shadow that moves; if you leave it, it goes. The photograph remains for hundreds of years until it is torn; it stays. This is a fallacy.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: I have a relative
The Shaykh:
Yes, water, if you stand on it, an image appears. Do you say this is imaging? What is this imaging? Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب حكم ما فيه صورة من الثياب والبسط والستور والنهي عن التصوير — islamhouse.com (55:11)
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