Speaking about the danger of image-making and that it is a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah).

The Shaykh : This is from the perspective of sadd al-dhara'i' (blocking the means to harm), because images and idols, in particular, have been and continue to be ... a cause for people to fall into shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief) in Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And there is a reference to the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) regarding the people of Noah: It was reported in Sahih al-Bukhari and others from Ibn Abbas that these were righteous people, so when they died ... and the ugliness of this action was made attractive to them, because in that there is a reminder. This is exactly what is spreading among the Europeans now, and some of the Muslims influenced by them, such as the erection of idols ... and leaders. So they responded to his desire and carved idols for them and continued with that for a period of time. Then it was inspired to them, as if to the second generation, that these idols, you know, were from the people of goodness and reform, and so on ... Then it came to a third generation and deluded them, saying that your fathers used to worship these, and their worship was nothing but prostrating to them, honoring them, and being polite to them.