What is the ruling on photographic images?

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. Another person says: It was reported from you, O Shaykh, that photographic images are permissible.

The Shaykh : Yes, the report is incorrect. What is reported from us is that photographic imaging is permissible. Photographic imaging means, for example, a person throws the device and directs it at something, and it captures it. This is not imaging in reality, because the person did not plan it, nor did he plan the eyes, the nose, the mouth, or anything else. This device, whatever you direct it at, it captures. It is not your work. The hadith is For this reason, many of the Salaf held that the forbidden image is the three-dimensional image that a person makes with his hand, which becomes a body. They said this is what involves imitating creation. As for this, it is merely color. Therefore, it came in the hadith of Zayd ibn Khalid But I see that imaging by hand, whether drawn on cloth or made in dough in the shape of an animal, is forbidden. As for capturing an image with a photographic device, it is not imaging at all. The evidence: write a book for me with your pen, then I will put it in the camera. Am I the one who wrote these letters, or not? Answer. Did you not understand the example? A person sent me a book written with his pen, then I put it in the camera that takes pictures, and the image came out. If you showed it to any one of you who knows the first person's handwriting, would you attribute it to me or to him? You would attribute it to him, without doubt, and not to me. And so you find that a blind person takes pictures, or not? If we gave a person a picture and said, "Take a picture of the person in front of you," and there was a man in front of him, and he was blind, and he directed it at him and pressed the button, and the picture came out, is that possible or not? It is possible, and he is blind. And so with the book. But the matter remains regarding the purpose. If he takes a picture for a purpose, what is that purpose? If it is a valid purpose, such as a dispensation for a dependent, or the permissibility of proving something, there is nothing wrong with it. But if it is merely for a memento, so that a person, whenever he misses his friend, goes to look at this picture, this is not permissible. Because this is something that renews the heart's attachment to other than Allah (Mighty and Majestic), especially if he dies and he returns to these pictures to remember them, for he will increase in sorrow upon his sorrow. Yes.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. A questioner says.

The Shaykh : Set the time. What time is it again?

The questioner : It is nine o'clock now.

The Shaykh : Nine o'clock. Okay, we will give you three minutes.

The questioner : That is little, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Three minutes.

The questioner : A quarter of an hour.

The questioner : A quarter.

The Shaykh : Now.

The questioner : It is nine o'clock now.

The Shaykh : Yes, yes, correct. Okay, there is good in three minutes.

The questioner : A quarter of an hour is better, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : Let's go.