What is the ruling on buying and keeping magazines that contain pictures?
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The questioner : What is the ruling on keeping Islamic magazines that contain pictures?
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : What is the ruling on keeping Islamic magazines that contain pictures?
The Shaykh : As for Islamic magazines, or if you wish, magazines in general, if a person keeps them for the sake of the pictures in them, then it is forbidden, and there is no doubt in that. But if he keeps them for the sake of the benefits in them, and the pictures are not a concern to him, whether they are in them or not, then I hope there is no harm in it. This is because the hardship of guarding against pictures in every newspaper and every magazine is apparent, and where there is hardship, ease is brought. However, it is better to do without them, and in the books of Islamic jurisprudence there is what is better and more appropriate.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : What is the ruling on keeping Islamic magazines that contain pictures?
The Shaykh : As for Islamic magazines, or if you wish, magazines in general, if a person keeps them for the sake of the pictures in them, then it is forbidden, and there is no doubt in that. But if he keeps them for the sake of the benefits in them, and the pictures are not a concern to him, whether they are in them or not, then I hope there is no harm in it. This is because the hardship of guarding against pictures in every newspaper and every magazine is apparent, and where there is hardship, ease is brought. However, it is better to do without them, and in the books of Islamic jurisprudence there is what is better and more appropriate.