What does one do with shirts that have pictures on them?
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The questioner : Another issue. This brother, may Allah guide him, has many shirts with embroidered pictures on them. What should he do with them?
The Shaykh : He should rub out the pictures.
The questioner : Is it not permissible for him to use them?
The Shaykh : Absolutely not. You prayed Friday in the mosque there when we met. My mind was occupied during the sermon and during the prayer by a boy, a young man, perhaps around fourteen years old, who came to pray, may Allah reward him with good. I was pleased with him because he faced the preacher, while the older men were facing the qiblah, not knowing that it is the Sunnah for those sitting to face the preacher. This boy faced the preacher, but on his back was a picture of a donkey, covering his entire back. The picture—may Allah strike these disbelievers, how are they turned away?—is extremely strange. The donkey has one eye, and the other eye is a small girl, and the head is large, covering the entire back. The second eye is a small girl up to two round eyes like this. May Allah make it easy for this boy to pass by me so that I can advise him. I saw him stand up, and he started to move, wondering how to pass. When I saw him hesitating, I opened the way for him, hoping he would get stuck and come toward me. But what Allah has not decreed as a portion for me, I missed. In truth, these shirts have spread in this country with no awareness and no consciousness at all. Often when we pray in the mosque, we find a young man, twenty or twenty-five years old, wearing a short-sleeved shirt—which is fine—but there is a picture of a girl on his back, combing her hair, and we are praying behind him. This blind imitation is a verification of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):Sahih al-Bukhari 3456. It occurred to me now that there is a second solution for the shirts: if possible, they can be worn as undergarments, and a plain shirt—plain—can be worn over them, so that the effect of the picture does not show through the plain shirt, or a jacket or a jacket or anything else.
The questioner : There is a small picture above the pocket; he can cover it by wearing a covering over it.
The Shaykh : That is possible. Sometimes we receive pillows with pictures of a peacock or something like that on them. We remove the head by new embroidery, so the features disappear.
Abu Layla : If it is as you said, a small picture, there are some labels like this, very small—like a tree or anything—placed on it and sewn over it so that he can benefit from its value.
The questioner : Yes.The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. It is appropriate for him to wear them as undergarments.
Abu Layla : Is he a merchant and does he sell them?
The questioner : No, no, he does not sell them; they are for himself. But may Allah guide him, the Exalted and Majestic, and they are old with him.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, that is right.
The Shaykh : He should rub out the pictures.
The questioner : Is it not permissible for him to use them?
The Shaykh : Absolutely not. You prayed Friday in the mosque there when we met. My mind was occupied during the sermon and during the prayer by a boy, a young man, perhaps around fourteen years old, who came to pray, may Allah reward him with good. I was pleased with him because he faced the preacher, while the older men were facing the qiblah, not knowing that it is the Sunnah for those sitting to face the preacher. This boy faced the preacher, but on his back was a picture of a donkey, covering his entire back. The picture—may Allah strike these disbelievers, how are they turned away?—is extremely strange. The donkey has one eye, and the other eye is a small girl, and the head is large, covering the entire back. The second eye is a small girl up to two round eyes like this. May Allah make it easy for this boy to pass by me so that I can advise him. I saw him stand up, and he started to move, wondering how to pass. When I saw him hesitating, I opened the way for him, hoping he would get stuck and come toward me. But what Allah has not decreed as a portion for me, I missed. In truth, these shirts have spread in this country with no awareness and no consciousness at all. Often when we pray in the mosque, we find a young man, twenty or twenty-five years old, wearing a short-sleeved shirt—which is fine—but there is a picture of a girl on his back, combing her hair, and we are praying behind him. This blind imitation is a verification of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
You will follow the wrong ways, of your predecessors so completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of a mastigure, you too will go there.
لتتبعن سنن من قبلكم شبرا بشبر وذراعا بذراع ، حتى لو دخلوا جحر ضب لدخلتموهThe questioner : There is a small picture above the pocket; he can cover it by wearing a covering over it.
The Shaykh : That is possible. Sometimes we receive pillows with pictures of a peacock or something like that on them. We remove the head by new embroidery, so the features disappear.
Abu Layla : If it is as you said, a small picture, there are some labels like this, very small—like a tree or anything—placed on it and sewn over it so that he can benefit from its value.
The questioner : Yes.The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. It is appropriate for him to wear them as undergarments.
Abu Layla : Is he a merchant and does he sell them?
The questioner : No, no, he does not sell them; they are for himself. But may Allah guide him, the Exalted and Majestic, and they are old with him.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, that is right.
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