Is a curtain with images on it to be removed, or is it like the embroidery on a garment?
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The questioner : Is a curtain with images on it to be removed, or is it like the embroidery on a garment?
The Shaykh : There is no problem with it, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) refrained from entering the house of Aisha for two reasons. The first reason is that he said, "The people of these images will be punished," and he did not say that the angels do not enter the house. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not want these images to be bought from them, as that would be aiding in what brings about their punishment and promoting their goods. As for the curtain, tearing it is either because he (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked covering the walls, as he said, "We were not commanded to cover clay and mud," or words to that effect. And if it is made into a cushion, there is a hadith narrated by al-Nasa'i with a sound chain in which Jibril said to him, "Tell her to cut it up so that it becomes two cushions to sit on."
Scholars also differed regarding embroidery on a garment, but the hadith of Zayd ibn Khalid indicates that it is permissible; an image on a garment is permissible, and what is forbidden is only the thing that has a body. However, the majority of scholars said: This is not correct, and they understood the embroidery on a garment to mean the embroidery of things whose image-making is permissible, such as trees and the like.
The Shaykh : There is no problem with it, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) refrained from entering the house of Aisha for two reasons. The first reason is that he said, "The people of these images will be punished," and he did not say that the angels do not enter the house. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not want these images to be bought from them, as that would be aiding in what brings about their punishment and promoting their goods. As for the curtain, tearing it is either because he (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked covering the walls, as he said, "We were not commanded to cover clay and mud," or words to that effect. And if it is made into a cushion, there is a hadith narrated by al-Nasa'i with a sound chain in which Jibril said to him, "Tell her to cut it up so that it becomes two cushions to sit on."
Scholars also differed regarding embroidery on a garment, but the hadith of Zayd ibn Khalid indicates that it is permissible; an image on a garment is permissible, and what is forbidden is only the thing that has a body. However, the majority of scholars said: This is not correct, and they understood the embroidery on a garment to mean the embroidery of things whose image-making is permissible, such as trees and the like.