What is the ruling when someone enters the mosque to pray while wearing a wallet that contains an image?
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The questioner : What is the ruling when someone enters the mosque, meaning he is wearing a wallet that contains an image?
The Shaykh : What is in it?
The questioner : There are images or an image in his clothes, and he entered the mosque to pray.
The Shaykh : His prayer is, of course, disliked.
The questioner : Is his prayer only disliked, or...?
The Shaykh : But it is valid despite the dislike. And what...?
The questioner : I mean, is his prayer only disliked, and he bears the sin of the rest, or the absence of the angels?
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : Does it reduce the reward, for example?
The Shaykh : That is the meaning of dislike. As for whether angels do not enter a mosque that has an image in it, and whether it is ruled as a house among people's houses? That is not an easy answer; because here there are factors that encourage the presence of angels and factors that repel them, and we do not know which of the two prevails. Is that clear?
The questioner: Yes.
Another questioner : But if the image...
The Shaykh : Yes?
Another questioner : If the image is present but...
The Shaykh : There is no difference for me, whether it is clear or not, it must be destroyed.
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Even if it is on... he leans on it, even if it is... he leans on it?
Another questioner : The hadith of... Aisha, he made it into cushions.
The Shaykh : I spoke... and we mentioned that its essence and summary is that the image was cut up.
The questioner : Or in a period, in a stage before the prohibition, meaning, is that possible?
The Shaykh : It is possible if the image is visible.
The questioner : If...
The Shaykh : Yes, but that is not clear at all.
The Shaykh : What is in it?
The questioner : There are images or an image in his clothes, and he entered the mosque to pray.
The Shaykh : His prayer is, of course, disliked.
The questioner : Is his prayer only disliked, or...?
The Shaykh : But it is valid despite the dislike. And what...?
The questioner : I mean, is his prayer only disliked, and he bears the sin of the rest, or the absence of the angels?
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : Does it reduce the reward, for example?
The Shaykh : That is the meaning of dislike. As for whether angels do not enter a mosque that has an image in it, and whether it is ruled as a house among people's houses? That is not an easy answer; because here there are factors that encourage the presence of angels and factors that repel them, and we do not know which of the two prevails. Is that clear?
The questioner: Yes.
Another questioner : But if the image...
The Shaykh : Yes?
Another questioner : If the image is present but...
The Shaykh : There is no difference for me, whether it is clear or not, it must be destroyed.
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Even if it is on... he leans on it, even if it is... he leans on it?
Another questioner : The hadith of... Aisha, he made it into cushions.
The Shaykh : I spoke... and we mentioned that its essence and summary is that the image was cut up.
The questioner : Or in a period, in a stage before the prohibition, meaning, is that possible?
The Shaykh : It is possible if the image is visible.
The questioner : If...
The Shaykh : Yes, but that is not clear at all.
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