What is the criterion for identifying the lowly among images?

Question : May Allah reward you with good. This questioner says: We have read in one of your books that lowly images are permissible, which is the view of the majority. The question is: What is the criterion for knowing which images are lowly? Because there has been an expansion in the concept of what is considered lowly? And is simplicity, or the carpets laid out in men’s gathering places, considered lowly? Knowing that if the carpet were lowly, it would not be placed in men’s gathering places. What is the ruling on images that are on them? And are children’s undergarments considered lowly, meaning is it permissible to give them images on them?

Answer : Yes, the lowly items were indicated by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he said, “Let them be trampled.” So the carpets that are trampled and the cushions that are leaned upon, there is no harm in them. However, despite that, it is better for a person not to use them. As for children’s clothing, what is for holding urine and the like, there is no harm in it because it is lowly. But what is clothing for covering, it is not permissible, because clothing with an image on it is forbidden for males and females, and for the young and the old.