If a person is convinced that image-making is not permissible, is he allowed to keep some pictures for the sake of memory, provided they are hidden from him?

The Shaykh : A person is convinced that image-making is not permissible; is he entitled to keep some old pictures for the sake of memory, knowing that he does not display them?
This question is frequent, and it is a strange matter. If we are convinced that image-making is not permissible—neither acquiring it, nor making it, nor the like—then why do we keep it in our homes, claiming it is for memory? This type of memory is not an Islamic memory; it is a disbeliever’s foreign memory. They deal with these models of these memories: they take a trip and take a picture, one person stands on a rock, another stands in front of a tree, and so on. This is memory! As for the correct Islamic memory, it is mutual advice, mutual remembrance in knowledge, and dealing with good, beautiful morals. This is the true memory, and this is what the Muslim benefits from. Therefore, I believe that every Muslim youth who has been tested in his time with this disbeliever’s foreign memory, and who keeps pictures of his friends, should hasten to tear them up and not keep them. Because keeping them gives, at the very least, the impression that he sees image-making as permissible. Even if he says, “I am convinced that image-making is forbidden,” this conviction, as he said, “Every vessel emits what is in it.”
If this conviction is correct, he will hasten to tear up every picture he has, except for what is absolutely necessary. Do not think, some listeners, that we are saying to tear up passports and IDs and the like. Because you will be forced to add another necessity when you need to be photographed again; the first time is sufficient for you. It is true that dire necessity permits the prohibited, but dire necessity is estimated according to its measure.
And we know from the biography of the righteous Salaf, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with them, despite the great difference between us and them. We lived in an Islamic atmosphere, and yet, unfortunately, we do not live in an Islamic atmosphere. As for them, they lived in a pre-Islamic age of ignorance, then Islam came to them, and it treated many of the wrongs among them, including intoxicants. When the prohibition of intoxicants was revealed, what did they do with the intoxicants that were with them? They had bought them when they were in the category of permissibility and lawfulness. They poured them out until the roads in the city flowed with intoxicants. Not one of them said, “My brother, I did not know.” He was excused because there was no legal ruling at that time. As for image-making, it has been fourteen hundred years since rulings and hadiths from the Messenger (peace be upon him) have come to us in succession that , , and then we live in a non-Islamic atmosphere, as I hinted at earlier. Why? Because the Muslims do not know their Islam, they do not know their religion. This may have been the case, then Allah guided whom He willed of the Muslim youth. So they should make their repentance good, and they should abandon all these pictures and tear them up thoroughly, if they are truly convinced of their prohibition...