What is the ruling on dolls and images made for children?
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The questioner : Are children’s images and dolls permissible?
The Shaykh : No, they are not permissible. What is permissible is what is made at home.
The questioner : Made at home?
The Shaykh : Yes, for the purpose of training a girl in sewing, managing the household, and the like. As for bringing these dolls from the lands of disbelief and misguidance, ready-made, first we pay exorbitant prices for them, and second, we import the customs and traditions of the disbelievers from the lands of disbelief, open sinfulness, and lewdness into the lands of Islam. These are calamities, darknesses upon darknesses. It is never permissible. This is what Muslims are afflicted with today. You rarely enter a house without finding these statues filling the house under the claim that this is an exception. No, this is not an exception.
The Shaykh : No, they are not permissible. What is permissible is what is made at home.
The questioner : Made at home?
The Shaykh : Yes, for the purpose of training a girl in sewing, managing the household, and the like. As for bringing these dolls from the lands of disbelief and misguidance, ready-made, first we pay exorbitant prices for them, and second, we import the customs and traditions of the disbelievers from the lands of disbelief, open sinfulness, and lewdness into the lands of Islam. These are calamities, darknesses upon darknesses. It is never permissible. This is what Muslims are afflicted with today. You rarely enter a house without finding these statues filling the house under the claim that this is an exception. No, this is not an exception.
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