What is the ruling on wearing clothes that have strange and odd images on them, such as caricatures and the like? And the discussion regarding image-making and the camera.

The questioner : The images that are drawn, what are they, for example? I mean, in spirit, there are caricature images, which may be, I mean, expressions, things, I mean... for example...
Another questioner: ...

The Shaykh : In the end, what you see on the television.

The questioner : It is not like it.

The Shaykh : Yes, well, this is more strictly forbidden. These people are told, "Bring to life what you have created." The ugliness has reached the point where I do not say this about the disbelievers; the disbelievers have no religion and no creator. But the Muslims, just a few days ago, I saw for the first time humans wearing clothes, clothes of bears, animals, and the like. Brother, you do not like the creation of Allah? What...?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : They do not like the creation of Allah, so they dress it with a mouth this big, ugly, like the mouth of a frog, and a long tail like the tail of a monkey. It is strange, it is no longer without blame... this monkey, it is very strange. Yes, this is more forbidden than these photographic images and others. What is your opinion now?

The questioner : ... The opinion, your opinion, O Shaykh.
Another questioner: ...
Another questioner: ...

The Shaykh :"Agreed, what a match"
Another questioner: ... We heard from one of our brothers an image, for example, an image of a human being, if we enlarge the head, the skull, on... significantly, or we pop out the eyes, or enlarge the nose, is there... is there prohibition in it, because for example it is likening... the created being...
Does it mean this is a way, I mean,

The questioner : I mean, a trick to turn the image of the human being that Allah created it in into a caricature, I mean, and he says that by this method he avoids the prohibition, I mean.

The Shaykh : Well, this... he will certainly say now that photographing the human being as Allah created it, photographing the human being as Allah created it with the camera is permissible, of course. This is what he says. This one says this image is permissible if the human being is photographed with the camera, so it is better in his view, is it not?

The questioner : ... He did not say... but he said that the image, I mean, if he gives it a shape other than the natural shape... there is nothing wrong with it...

The Shaykh : Well, if it is an image from his imagination, how is this human being? An image from his imagination, like what we were talking about, what does he say about it?

The questioner : ... He did not touch on this topic, but... we... it is mentioned because

The Shaykh : The images, my brother.

The questioner : ... The answer.

The Shaykh : All, all images are forbidden, all images are forbidden, but this is more strictly forbidden because here there is a change to the creation of Allah along with the image-making; there is a change to the creation of Allah. And the Messenger says . I remember to my brothers on an occasion like this, when I was in elementary school, the math and geometry teacher was skilled in drawing. When the students went out for the break, he would put down a chair and watch this one jump and that one... and so on. He drew on the side of the blackboard. He would see a boy whose picture pleased him, "Come here, boy, stand here... moments later, the boy's picture appears on the board."
Another questioner: There is no god but Allah.

The Shaykh : Yes, is this permissible? It is not permissible. This is what the Messenger intended . Now, the camera is more precise than this hand-drawn image. Some groups say, may Allah guide us and them, "The camera did not exist." Yes, and if it had not existed, this image is not an image, and this photographer who photographs with the camera is not a photographer? Yes. So the Messenger said . I once debated with some of them on this specific point, that they say this machine did not exist. We said to him, "Well, what is your opinion? Do you know in Europe there are huge factories that make idols and statues, the... what do you call them, from marble, from metal, from bronze, from what do they call it again? Yes, this is a metal that is melted, poured into a place, press a button, and the idols come out at the end of the line, complete idols with the press of a button, like the press of a button on the camera. We said to him, "Is this permissible?" He said, "No." We said to him, "Why?" He said, "These are statues." We said to him, "Yes, statues, but the machine was not... the machine in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Our disagreement is not that this is an image or a statue; our disagreement is that this image was taken by a machine that was not in the time of the Messenger. So because it was not in the time of the Messenger, you permitted the image resulting from this machine. Well, I have brought you a machine that produces a three-dimensional image, this... you did not permit it, they did not have a machine."