What is the ruling on video photography? And is photography in the fields of jihad considered a necessity?

Al-Halabi : Regarding photography in Afghanistan, video and camera photography, where they take pictures and send them to countries, is this photography considered photography out of necessity?

The Shaykh : The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke the truth: We have said that the nature of disbelievers and disbelief, those who do not work for Allah the Exalted, and who do not have among the motivators and encouragers by way of revelation what the Muslims have, is such that they appreciate this photography and take it as a means of encouragement, to attract people's attention, and the like, just as they do with what they call acting, where they act out some of the stories, and our discussion is about the stories they claim, whose topics are for the benefit of the people, not for the harm of the people, with the stories that are acted out regarding sex and the like. In reality, they are in need of such acting, because they have no Qur'an, and no hadiths in the category of encouragement and warning, which all of this makes us self-sufficient, so that we do not need to follow the path of those before us. Add to that something else: the Muslim world today, unfortunately, begs for sympathy from the strong due to its weakness, even if they are its enemies. This type of photography that you asked about, in my opinion, is also of this nature. It is not obligatory for the Muslim to ever be submissive or humble to non-Muslims. So we ask Allah the Exalted to inspire us with guidance, and to make us successful in following the Shari'ah of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in all aspects of our lives. Yes.