What is your opinion regarding video tapes that contain either lectures or cartoons depicting the stories of the prophets and others?
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The questioner : Noble Shaykh, what is your opinion regarding video tapes that depict cartoons of the stories of the prophets or lectures delivered by some of the Shaykhs?
The Shaykh : As for the lectures, there is nothing wrong with them because they contain benefit, and they are not among the images that are warned against, because they are not placed on the tape and are not viewed. As for the prophets, it is not permissible to depict the image of the prophets, neither in video nor on paper, because they are too noble for their images to be degraded in the hands of people.
The questioner : Cartoons.
The Shaykh : The worst of cartoons, the worst, because cartoons, as far as we know, make the images distorted and not realistic, so it is not permissible.
The questioner : From the stories of the Qur'an, such as the youth of the Ditch.
The Shaykh : This is also wrong, because what makes them know that the people of the Ditch were of this form of body and physical description? The creation has decreased from Adam to this Ummah. At first, the height of the human being was sixty cubits and his width was seven cubits, then the creation began to decrease until it stopped at this Ummah and became as you see. I think that what depicts something about which a person has no knowledge, it is not permissible to display it. Yes.
The questioner : Some people say: to make it entertaining.
The Shaykh : It becomes established now. Do you not know the story of the people of the Ditch?
The questioner : Except...
The Shaykh : Did you know it through this?
The questioner : But these ones.
The Shaykh : I ask you, I ask you, but did you know it through this?
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : If you have finished, if you knew it, others knew it without these things. And who is the one who depicts this? It may be a person who knows nothing about the story of the people of the Ditch, but he imagined it and said: this is its meaning or this is its image.
The questioner : O Shaykh, there are additional things in it, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The important thing is that I think that what relates to the stories of the Qur'an, it is not permissible to depict it, and it is not permissible to display it to the children. Even I have something in my mind regarding displaying the story of Muhammad al-Fatih to the children, because if only the story of this man is displayed before the boy, he will think that this man is the hero of Islam and that there is no other hero, and this is not correct in Islam. The heroes are not like al-Fatih. Yes, heroes whom al-Fatih does not reach, not even half, not even to their knees. Yes, behind him to the left.
The Shaykh : As for the lectures, there is nothing wrong with them because they contain benefit, and they are not among the images that are warned against, because they are not placed on the tape and are not viewed. As for the prophets, it is not permissible to depict the image of the prophets, neither in video nor on paper, because they are too noble for their images to be degraded in the hands of people.
The questioner : Cartoons.
The Shaykh : The worst of cartoons, the worst, because cartoons, as far as we know, make the images distorted and not realistic, so it is not permissible.
The questioner : From the stories of the Qur'an, such as the youth of the Ditch.
The Shaykh : This is also wrong, because what makes them know that the people of the Ditch were of this form of body and physical description? The creation has decreased from Adam to this Ummah. At first, the height of the human being was sixty cubits and his width was seven cubits, then the creation began to decrease until it stopped at this Ummah and became as you see. I think that what depicts something about which a person has no knowledge, it is not permissible to display it. Yes.
The questioner : Some people say: to make it entertaining.
The Shaykh : It becomes established now. Do you not know the story of the people of the Ditch?
The questioner : Except...
The Shaykh : Did you know it through this?
The questioner : But these ones.
The Shaykh : I ask you, I ask you, but did you know it through this?
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : If you have finished, if you knew it, others knew it without these things. And who is the one who depicts this? It may be a person who knows nothing about the story of the people of the Ditch, but he imagined it and said: this is its meaning or this is its image.
The questioner : O Shaykh, there are additional things in it, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The important thing is that I think that what relates to the stories of the Qur'an, it is not permissible to depict it, and it is not permissible to display it to the children. Even I have something in my mind regarding displaying the story of Muhammad al-Fatih to the children, because if only the story of this man is displayed before the boy, he will think that this man is the hero of Islam and that there is no other hero, and this is not correct in Islam. The heroes are not like al-Fatih. Yes, heroes whom al-Fatih does not reach, not even half, not even to their knees. Yes, behind him to the left.