What is your comment on the use of papers containing pictures?
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The questioner : We have a letter in front of us now, which also came from Syria, from Jum'ah al-Husayn al-Hamud. He is asking some questions, but he is appealing to the sender, Jum'ah al-Husayn al-Hamud, and to some of the listeners that they should not send us papers containing pictures, whether these pictures are of women or of animals. The picture in the letter we have in front of us, which Jum'ah sent, is of a girl. We ask the brothers to send us white paper and not to send us this kind of paper. I believe that Shaykh Muhammad has a comment on this picture before answering these questions.
The Shaykh : Go ahead. In any case, yes, our comment on it is that pictures are not permissible except if they are in things that are trampled upon, such as mattresses, carpets, and the like. Otherwise, it is not permissible to possess them.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Not in letters, nor in hanging them on walls, nor in keeping them in an album, which they call an album, or anything else.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.
The questioner : Jum'ah says.
The Shaykh : Go ahead. In any case, yes, our comment on it is that pictures are not permissible except if they are in things that are trampled upon, such as mattresses, carpets, and the like. Otherwise, it is not permissible to possess them.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Not in letters, nor in hanging them on walls, nor in keeping them in an album, which they call an album, or anything else.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.
The questioner : Jum'ah says.