What is your opinion on keeping pictures in an album, and do these pictures prevent the angels from entering homes?
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The questioner : A message from Doha: A group of sisters from Doha say, “We ask that these questions be presented to His Eminence Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen.” The first question is: What is your opinion on keeping pictures in an album, and do these pictures prevent the angels from entering homes?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them in excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for these pictures that are kept, as they say, for remembrance, we see that keeping them is forbidden, especially if they are pictures of the dead, and that it is obligatory to burn them and remove them, because they are realistic images. And if they are realistic images, then the angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture. The report of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that the angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture is intended to warn against acquiring pictures. So my advice to these sisters who are asking is that they burn what they have of these pictures and that they do not return to such things. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them in excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for these pictures that are kept, as they say, for remembrance, we see that keeping them is forbidden, especially if they are pictures of the dead, and that it is obligatory to burn them and remove them, because they are realistic images. And if they are realistic images, then the angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture. The report of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that the angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture is intended to warn against acquiring pictures. So my advice to these sisters who are asking is that they burn what they have of these pictures and that they do not return to such things. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.