Do we say that the statues mentioned in the verse (( .
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The student : ......?
The Shaykh : I have what necessitates that they depicted their statues, yes, and that they worshipped them; it does not necessitate that they be forbidden.
The student : ....... depicted their statues .....
The Shaykh : This is correct, but they may have been permissible, yet they used them to reach what is forbidden, meaning they were among the causes of shirk (associating partners with Allah), without a doubt. In any case, we say, regarding the author's statement, the word "statues": as long as the meaning of a statue is anything depicted in the likeness of something else, it is not necessary to say they depicted an animal; they may have depicted trees, palaces, or the like. According to the author's statement, which is an answer to an implied question—how do they depict an animal, for example, or a human?—he answered that the image in his time was not forbidden, yes.
The student: .......?
The Shaykh : No, a mosque niche is not called a taq, yes.
The Shaykh : I have what necessitates that they depicted their statues, yes, and that they worshipped them; it does not necessitate that they be forbidden.
The student : ....... depicted their statues .....
The Shaykh : This is correct, but they may have been permissible, yet they used them to reach what is forbidden, meaning they were among the causes of shirk (associating partners with Allah), without a doubt. In any case, we say, regarding the author's statement, the word "statues": as long as the meaning of a statue is anything depicted in the likeness of something else, it is not necessary to say they depicted an animal; they may have depicted trees, palaces, or the like. According to the author's statement, which is an answer to an implied question—how do they depict an animal, for example, or a human?—he answered that the image in his time was not forbidden, yes.
The student: .......?
The Shaykh : No, a mosque niche is not called a taq, yes.