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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on displaying images of the characteristics of prostration and hanging them in mosques

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible to display images that clarify the correct characteristics of prostration, and then hang them in mosques or elsewhere?

Answer:
This is permissible. These images are forbidden, and whoever makes images is cursed. There is no precedent from the Companions, the Successors, the blessed generations, or those who came after them that they taught through image-making. That is a forbidden means. We do not spread knowledge through a forbidden means. This is not permissible. This knowledge, praise be to Allah, is clear. They teach through speech. There is no harm in teaching it by action. You say to him, “Pray with me, pray with me,” or you pray in front of him and say, “Pray like this.” There is no objection to that. But as for the image, no, this is not permissible. And hanging it in mosques, this is also not permissible. Yes.
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب هيئات السجود وكيف الهوي إليه — islamhouse.com (51:09)

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