Acquiring scientific books that contain images of animals

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, there are some books in which certain animals are depicted. These are scientific books that discuss fractures, diseases, and insects. They are beneficial scientific books, and everyone who reads them benefits from them. There are no books free of images that discuss these animals that could serve as a substitute for them. What is your opinion on acquiring these books for private libraries that you complete? And do they prevent the angels from entering?

Answer:
By Allah, this is undoubtedly a problem. The inclusion of images in these books is a problem. Creating images is forbidden in the first place. Depicting these images in books is forbidden in the first place for the one who depicts them. As for the one who wants to acquire the book to benefit from it, if he is able to obliterate these images with a pen, it is obligatory for him to obliterate them. However, if he is unable to do so because of their number, or because obliterating them would ruin the book, then he may use the book for the benefits it contains. In this case, these images are not intended; they are a calamity, without a doubt. If it is possible for you to do without this book or to remove it from your house, that is required. But if you cannot do without this book, and the images are numerous, and you are unable to obliterate them, or obliterating them would ruin the book, then hardship brings about ease. However, placing the images in the first place is forbidden. The one who placed them is Adam. Drawing is not sufficient. Drawing is not sufficient. Drawing sometimes beautifies them, making them look like a collar. But obliterating means that the head is obliterated so that its head is not visible at all. This is the obliteration. One should take a pen or something and place it over their heads so that it is not clear that they have a head at all.