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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Continuation of the discussion on the previous hadith regarding the refutation of the Mu'tazilah who prohibit all images through various types of false interpretations.

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The Shaykh : ... This is confirmed for you by a hadith, or one of the aforementioned hadiths of Abu Hurayrah, in which he narrated from his Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) that He said:
Who are most unjust than those who try to create something like My creation? I challenge them to create even a smallest ant, a wheat grain or a barley grain. ومَن أظلَمُ مِمَّن ذَهَب يَخلُقُ كَخَلقي ، فلْيَخلُقوا ذَرَّةً ، فلْيَخلُقوا حَبَّةً ، فلْيَخلُقوا شَعيرَةً
Sahih al-Bukhari 7559
. So this is the word of Allah. It is reported that the reason Abu Hurayrah narrated this hadith was that he passed by an artist who was drawing pictures in the palace of one of the Umayyads, drawing pictures on the walls, so he narrated this hadith to him. So those pictures—also—even if we imagine that they are raised and prominent, but not, in the expression of the jurists, three-dimensional, I do not think so. So when the Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
Everyone who makes representations of things will go to hell كلُّ مصوِّرٍ في النار
Mishkat al-Masabih 4498
, he only received this meaning from Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And he explicitly stated in some hadiths that it is Allah who rebukes the artists for their drawing and admonishes them. Who dares to rival Allah (Mighty and Majestic) by going and creating as Allah (Mighty and Majestic) creates, as He said (the Exalted):
So blessed is Allah, the best of creators. فَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ
[Al-Mu'minun 23:14]
?! So when he (may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him) said:
Everyone who makes representations of things will go to hell كلُّ مصوِّرٍ في النار
Mishkat al-Masabih 4498
, this is from the revelation of the heavens. Is it strange for the revelation of the heavens, meaning for Allah (Mighty and Majestic), to reveal to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) a general ruling that includes details that had not yet come? If we keep this reality in mind, it is not strange that the Messenger (peace be upon him), when he said:
Everyone who makes representations of things will go to hell كلُّ مصوِّرٍ في النار
Mishkat al-Masabih 4498
, also meant the artists who were not in his time (peace be upon him); because it is Allah who inspired him to say this comprehensive general word, even including artists with the photographic camera.
Source www.al-albany.com

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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