What is the ruling on hanging a picture in the mosque?
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Question:
Hanging a picture in the mosque?
Answer:
A picture is not permissible, neither in the mosque nor in the house; even in the house it is not permissible, whether it is a picture of a person or an animal.
Q: Like newspapers?
The Shaykh: No, it is not permissible if he has it, he wipes its head or hangs it on the wall.
Q: Some people hang pictures of the poor and put a paper on them saying: Give charity, and verses that encourage charity?
The Shaykh: No, it is not permissible; he calls for charity without pictures, he calls for charity for the poor without pictures.
Hanging a picture in the mosque?
Answer:
A picture is not permissible, neither in the mosque nor in the house; even in the house it is not permissible, whether it is a picture of a person or an animal.
Q: Like newspapers?
The Shaykh: No, it is not permissible if he has it, he wipes its head or hangs it on the wall.
Q: Some people hang pictures of the poor and put a paper on them saying: Give charity, and verses that encourage charity?
The Shaykh: No, it is not permissible; he calls for charity without pictures, he calls for charity for the poor without pictures.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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