The Shaykh’s remarks on images and the great degree of laxity that has occurred among Muslims regarding them, and an explanation of the Islamic ruling on them.

The Shaykh : Because images must be eradicated from the Muslim world, except where there is a dire necessity or, at the very least, a pressing need. Today, photography has become a widespread calamity, to the point that even Islamic magazines do not escape this sin against the Shari'ah.
I have been following the scholarly disagreement regarding images, both past and present, since my youth. In the past, there was a disagreement over the type of images: some said the forbidden images are the three-dimensional ones, while others said all images are forbidden, whether three-dimensional or not. The opinion settled on the latter view, which is the correct one, and there is much evidence for it from the hadiths of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), but that is not the subject at hand.
We have entered the modern era, and means of image-making have appeared that were not known in the previous era when they disagreed over whether the forbidden images are the three-dimensional ones or not. Today, we face the camera, which has become a toy even for small children. So a question arises: Are these images permissible, or are they like the previous images, even if the means differ? In this issue, there are two opinions, as is the case with most issues among Muslims. They were still disputing this issue, after agreeing that manual image-making is forbidden, but they differed on photographic image-making. The majority of people held that this photographic image-making is permissible.
The caravan moved on behind this opinion. Some people began publishing photos of some scholars and lecturers at the top of articles. This practice continued for years, and now we are going backwards, returning to publishing imaginary images. Religious magazines are filled with images drawn with brushes and paint and the like. Where is what we used to say before the existence of this machine, the camera? We used to say that manual image-making is forbidden, but mechanical image-making is lawful. The matter became confused, and we now permit even in religious magazines, let alone magazines that do not adhere to the rulings of the Islamic Shari'ah. We do not settle for publishing images that we claim are permissible because they are from the machine; rather, we go further and draw an image of a noble, righteous scholar with a brush and pen, in red and blue and the like.
What does all of this indicate? It indicates that the Muslims will not return to their glory and majesty except as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in a hadith I mentioned in a previous symposium, where he said, "If you do such and such and such" . If the scholars and Islamic callers do not return to their religion, but rather are in a state of development in their ideas, what was forbidden half a century ago has become lawful today, or at least permissible. What made it permissible? It is that it became widespread and pervasive, meaning it became so common that many people cannot live without these images.
So how can the Muslims be saved, when the Messenger describes the cure for them , and yet as time passes for us, we go backwards with new fatwas every day? In summary, all images, whether manual or mechanical, are forbidden. They fall under the general scope of the many hadiths of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), among which is . Is there a difference, do you think, between...