The ruling on performing Hajj with the proceeds from selling a video camera
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Question:
The questioner says: A man asks about a video camera he owns. He wants to sell this device and perform Hajj with its price. He notes that the filming is used only for natural landscapes and tribal wedding celebrations. What is the ruling on selling it and performing Hajj with its price?
Answer:
If it films beings with souls in a way that the image is fixed on paper, on cloth, or on stone, it is not permissible, except if the filming is for dire necessity: for identification documents, for academic certificates, for dire necessity; then there is no harm.
As for a device that films for people whoever they want: it films so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so, no, this is not permissible. This is cooperation in sin and aggression.
But if it films something for which there is a dire necessity: such as when a photo is required for an identification document, and such as academic certificates where they say: we will not give it to you without a photo; then there is no harm. And Allah says: [Al-An'am: 119].
Q: Does it film a natural landscape, for example?
A: What does not get fixed does not become an image, like the image in a mirror does not get fixed.
Q: Is this a moving image?
A: If it does not get fixed on paper or on a sheet of paper.
Q: Yes, it does not get fixed?
A: It does not become an image.
Q: He sells it and performs Hajj with its price?
A: If it does not film an image that gets fixed; it does no harm.
What is forbidden is an image that gets fixed on paper or on cloth.
The questioner says: A man asks about a video camera he owns. He wants to sell this device and perform Hajj with its price. He notes that the filming is used only for natural landscapes and tribal wedding celebrations. What is the ruling on selling it and performing Hajj with its price?
Answer:
If it films beings with souls in a way that the image is fixed on paper, on cloth, or on stone, it is not permissible, except if the filming is for dire necessity: for identification documents, for academic certificates, for dire necessity; then there is no harm.
As for a device that films for people whoever they want: it films so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so, no, this is not permissible. This is cooperation in sin and aggression.
But if it films something for which there is a dire necessity: such as when a photo is required for an identification document, and such as academic certificates where they say: we will not give it to you without a photo; then there is no harm. And Allah says:
while He has explained in detail to you what He has forbidden you, excepting that to which you are compelled
وَقَدْ فَصَّلَ لَكُمْ مَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلَّا مَا اضْطُرِرْتُمْ إِلَيْهِQ: Does it film a natural landscape, for example?
A: What does not get fixed does not become an image, like the image in a mirror does not get fixed.
Q: Is this a moving image?
A: If it does not get fixed on paper or on a sheet of paper.
Q: Yes, it does not get fixed?
A: It does not become an image.
Q: He sells it and performs Hajj with its price?
A: If it does not film an image that gets fixed; it does no harm.
What is forbidden is an image that gets fixed on paper or on cloth.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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