Some students who study in the mosque bring books containing images; what is the ruling on that?
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The questioner : Some students who study in the mosque bring books containing images; what is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : The ruling is that a person should, if he intends to study in the mosque, study lessons that do not contain images. This is because if he brings an image into the mosque, the angels do not enter a house in which there is an image. However, most of the images found in textbooks are usually covered by the book, so they are not visible or prominent. Furthermore, some of them contain only the image of the head, without the rest of the body. The image that is forbidden is only that which is recognized as an image due to the presence of the entire body or most of it.
The Shaykh : The ruling is that a person should, if he intends to study in the mosque, study lessons that do not contain images. This is because if he brings an image into the mosque, the angels do not enter a house in which there is an image. However, most of the images found in textbooks are usually covered by the book, so they are not visible or prominent. Furthermore, some of them contain only the image of the head, without the rest of the body. The image that is forbidden is only that which is recognized as an image due to the presence of the entire body or most of it.