Explaining that distinguishing in the ruling between photographic images and hand-drawn images is a form of apparentism from the present age.

The Shaykh : In my previous speech, and in answering that question in which some people think that I am an apparentist following the school of Ibn Hazm, I began to mention some examples of the apparentism of Ibn Hazm, which we do not see as correct in any way. And I reached, after those examples I quoted from the book of Ibn Hazm, which is *Al-Muhalla*, to a modern apparentism, which is stranger than that apparentism, because it comes from people who claim that they use their minds. And so their affair reached the point where they fell into strange contradictions. So, with their use of their unbridled minds, they denied authentic hadiths, and on the other hand, they were as rigid as the apparentists. And this is what I intended to explain earlier. We said that images include three-dimensional images that have a shadow, that is, idols, and these are forbidden by the consensus of the Muslims. As for the other images, which are not three-dimensional, and which are embroidered on curtains or on clothes, or painted on walls with paint or with a pencil or the like on paper, these images are called non-three-dimensional, and they may express this by saying that they have no shadow, while idols have a shadow. This second category of images was found among those who came before, who said there is no harm in them, because they understood the hadiths that curse the image-makers and the hadiths that say: to refer to three-dimensional images that have a shadow.
I reached the mention of the hadith of Aisha regarding the curtain she had made on the occasion of the arrival of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disapproved of that for her and said: So he pointed to the image-makers who had drawn images on the curtains, and they were images that were not three-dimensional, but rather images of the garment on the curtain. So this was proof of the invalidity of those who restrict the forbidden images to those that are three-dimensional or have a shadow. For the images on this curtain had no shadow and were not three-dimensional. Therefore, many of the scholars of the Muslims, foremost among them Imam al-Nawawi in his commentary on Sahih Muslim, stated with certainty: "The correct view is that the hadiths include in the prohibition all images, whether they are three-dimensional or not three-dimensional". And we have reached today in our present age a third type of images, which are photographic images. And many of the writers, and even those who are said to be Islamic preachers, have said that these photographic images are permissible. Why? Because they were not drawn with a pen or a brush or by any old means. And this is like the apparentist rigidity in its interpretation of the two previous hadiths, the hadith: and the hadith: , and there is no need for us to repeat the discussion of them.
So now, this modern apparentist rigidity that distinguishes between an image drawn by hand with a pen and an image taken by a photographic machine, this image and this image, if you place one next to the other, you will not find a difference worth mentioning between them. Rather, the difference is purely formal, which is to say that this one was drawn by hand so it is forbidden, and this other one was taken by the machine so it is lawful. This is the apparentism of Ibn Hazm in the present age.
And I once said to some of them: They claimed that a shaykh visited a student of his, and when he sat in his place, he found an image of himself facing him. So he admonished his student and said to him: "O so-and-so, I know you as a righteous, pious student. Why did you place my image in this place? Do you not know that the angels do not enter a house in which there is an image or a dog?" He said to him: "My master, I did that so that your memory would be in my mind." He said to him: "This is not permissible. You must take it down and remove it." So the student hastened and took it down. Then days passed, and the shaykh returned and visited the student again, and there he saw the image in its place. So he reminded the student of what had happened previously and how the shaykh had admonished him and reminded him, and that the student had responded to him at that time. So why did you return and put the image back in its place? The student said: "My master, we understood from you that the hand-drawn image is the forbidden one, while the photographic image is the permissible one. So this is a photographic image." Then he said:The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. You are a jurist student, or you have attained jurisprudence.