What is the ruling on photographic imaging for the sake of remembrance?

The questioner : Please. Peace be upon you. A sister is with us on the line, Honorable Shaykh, and she asks: What is the Shaykh’s view on photography if it is kept for the sake of remembrance, regarding children or family members?

The Shaykh : This is not permissible; it is not permissible to keep pictures for the sake of remembrance. Because the angels do not enter a house in which there is an image, unless the image is on a head only, or it is an image without a head.

The questioner : The process of photography, Honorable Shaykh, what is its ruling?

The Shaykh : As for if it is done by hand, or if the image is three-dimensional, then it is not permissible. As for capturing it with a camera, it does not fall under image-making, because the one who captured it did not actually create the image; rather, he captured an image which is the creation of Allah the Exalted. Otherwise, he did not draw the eye, nor the nose, nor the mouth, nor the forehead, nor the back of Allah’s creation. And what indicates this is that if a person takes a book, meaning a letter from a person, and photographs it in a camera, these images are not said to be written by him. That is, it is not said that the one who operated the camera and the image came out wrote this handwriting. Rather, it is an image of the handwriting by the pen of the one who sent it to you.