What is the ruling on drawing as an art?
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The questioner: Drawing humans or animals as an art... It was narrated: "May Allah curse the image-makers..."?
The Shaykh: This art, my brother, is like the art of dancing.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : What is your opinion?
The questioner: Like the art of dancing.
The Shaykh: Is dancing not permissible?
The questioner: None of it is permissible.
The Shaykh: Yes, the art of dancing, the art of music, and the art of drawing; all of that is among the forbidden things in Islam. It is not permissible for a Muslim to draw an image of a living being. If a man is an artist, meaning his nature is to love drawing, like a person who loves marriage, and this is an instinct, but he does not satisfy his instinct in what is forbidden, rather in what is permissible, as Allah said:[An-Nisa 4:3]. Likewise, if a man is an artist, as they claim, and his hobby is drawing, let him draw whatever he wishes of Allah's creation, such as trees, rivers, vegetables, the sky, the earth, the sun, and the moon. In all of that are signs of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and it is sufficient for him to direct his hobby to these permissible things. As for drawing a living being, whether it is a human or an animal, as you heard in the hadith: Sahih Muslim 2110b, Sunan an-Nasa'i 5357Sahih (Darussalam), up to the rest of the hadiths, the last of which is Sahih Muslim 2106e. This is the answer.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: This art, my brother, is like the art of dancing.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : What is your opinion?
The questioner: Like the art of dancing.
The Shaykh: Is dancing not permissible?
The questioner: None of it is permissible.
The Shaykh: Yes, the art of dancing, the art of music, and the art of drawing; all of that is among the forbidden things in Islam. It is not permissible for a Muslim to draw an image of a living being. If a man is an artist, meaning his nature is to love drawing, like a person who loves marriage, and this is an instinct, but he does not satisfy his instinct in what is forbidden, rather in what is permissible, as Allah said:
then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four
فَانْكِحُوا مَا طَابَ لَكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ مَثْنَى وَثُلَاثَ وَرُبَاعَHe who painted pictures in the world would be compelled to breathe soul in them on the Day of Resurrection, but he would not be able to breathe soul (in them).
لَعَنَ الله المصوِّرين ، مَن صوَّرَ صورةً كُلِّفَ أن ينفخ فيها الروح يوم القيامة وليس بنافخThe people who will be most severely punished on the Day of Resurrection
إنَّ أشدَّ الناس عذابًا يوم القيامة هؤلاء المصوِّرونAngels do not enter a house in which there is a picture
لا تدخل الملائكة بيتًا فيه صورة أو كلبThe questioner : ... .
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