What is the ruling on keeping pictures for remembrance and hanging them in houses?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O Shaykh. Many people are now expanding their use of photographic images that have shadows, keeping them for remembrance, and some hang them. We want to shed light on this matter. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : I see that keeping pictures for remembrance is forbidden, because it falls under the generality of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture." And hanging them is more forbidden, because hanging them implies exalting them. For this reason, you find that those who exalt their fathers, or their brothers, or their shaykhs, hang their pictures in their places of sitting. This is forbidden, without doubt. As for the one who keeps them for a need, for example, if a person has an ID card or a driver's license, or if he expects that he will need this picture in the future, then there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
The questioner : Oh Shaykh
The Shaykh : I see that keeping pictures for remembrance is forbidden, because it falls under the generality of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture." And hanging them is more forbidden, because hanging them implies exalting them. For this reason, you find that those who exalt their fathers, or their brothers, or their shaykhs, hang their pictures in their places of sitting. This is forbidden, without doubt. As for the one who keeps them for a need, for example, if a person has an ID card or a driver's license, or if he expects that he will need this picture in the future, then there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
The questioner : Oh Shaykh