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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the ruling on placing magazines containing pictures in the mosque?

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The questioner: All right, this newspaper or magazine that they put inside the mosque is full of pictures, and so on.
Abu Malik: It is regrettable.

The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!

The questioner: Is this a type of imitating them?
Abu Malik: No, they consider that this is the first of the pictures for them, and there is nothing wrong with it; the ruling for them is permissibility. In fact, they consider the picture... Have you not seen their magazine that was published, or I do not know if it is still being published, which they call "Al-Mujahid" or "Al-Bunyan Al-Marsus"? The magazines that were published in Afghanistan bring pictures of the martyrs, yes, why do they bring a picture of the martyr? This is for the sake of encouraging people.

The Shaykh: "The end justifies the means."
Abu Malik: Yes, "the end justifies the means," so they tell you: it is necessary that his memory be preserved among the people and his picture be spread so that he is known, so that his picture remains in the minds of people after his death, and this is... our Shaykh, this is it.

The Shaykh: ... Yes, this is Wadd, Suwa', Yaghuth, and Nasr.

The questioner: The pictures of those who... either a picture of a naked disbelieving woman carrying a stone, or a picture of a shaven-headed man.

The Shaykh: ... they are fighting and they want to return Palestine?
Abu Malik: ...
Source www.al-albany.com

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