Is Taking Pictures With A Camera Haram In Islam

What are the interpretations of Islamic scholars on the issue of photographs or say, selfies? SAMAA TV programme Subah Sehri Samaa ke Sath set out to seek a few answers.

Host Bilal Qutb began the discussion by asking Mufti Muhammad Zubair to discuss what the Shariah says about pictures and music.

Mufti Muhammad Zubair: Digital images are allowed in Islam

"A perception prevails in our gild that a lot of ulema kickoff declare something haram and later declare the same matter halal," he said. This is not a weakness on office of the ulema, he said. "In fact, this tin can be appreciated. You tin can meet that the ulema are flexible in accordance with changing society. Through ijtihaad , we propose solutions."

However, ijtihaad cannot happen over issues that Allah (swt) or the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) gave clear instructions on, he said. "When nosotros talk virtually pictures, it's very clear that they are haram. There are diverse hadiths. Hazrat Ali (RA) has clearly said that any image or statue you meet, remove it." He as well cited how the Holy Prophet (PBUH) expressed discontent over a curtain with an image that his wife, Bibi Ayesha (RA), had put upward.

"One more hadith in Sihae Sitta says that on the Day of Judgment, the hardest punishment will be for the musavvir [artist]," he said.

Even so, he added, the state of affairs is entirely different in today's age. Co-ordinate to him, digital images are permitted in Islam. "The image that was alleged haram used to have naqsh , which was printed and could be touched and held. It was zildaar , which means it had a shadow. Such an paradigm is haram and nobody can declare it halal. But the image of a digital photographic camera, co-ordinate to our research, is not included in the category of haram images. Why? It's non touchable, it cannot exist held."

"Zubair bhai , I can stand with a digital image in front of me and I can likewise put information technology in the 3rd dimension," Qutb interrupted to ask.

"Bilal bhai, it is not like that," said Mufti Zubair. "You cannot bear on the image. You lot can only touch the device that has the image. In one case yous destroy the phone, where is the paradigm? In computer terminology, it'south software not hardware. Think this. It's in the form of 0101 code. Yous may ask an It skilful."

The scholar then clarified that if you impress a digital paradigm, information technology is haram equally you lot will exist able to touch the image then.

Allama Hisham Elahi Zaheer: Capturing a reflection is not shirk

Co-ordinate to Allama Hisham Elahi Zaheer, the ulema concord that any image made by the human hand is haram. "The creative person will be asked to put a spirit in the image on the Day of Judgment," he said.

He said that in a camera paradigm, the artist is Allah (swt). "Just similar a human sees their reflection in a mirror, the camera captures a digital image the same way," he said. According to him, the creator and possessor of this image is still Almighty Allah.

"Taking a photo is similar capturing a human being's reflection in the mirror," said Allama Zaheer. "Science students know very well that a person's bodily reflection is captured by the camera. The artist, on the other hand, is copying Allah'due south (swt) creation. He or she is putting Omnipotent Allah's creation in a mold, which is why information technology is prohibited. Capturing a reflection in digital form is not shirk ."

He said that some ulema have alleged this haram because in one case the image is printed, it takes a tangible course.

Allama Kumail Mehdavi: Some ID bill of fare, passport photos are halal

Co-ordinate to Allama Kumail Mehdavi, the hadiths prohibiting drawing images also exist in the books of Fiqh-e-Jafaria . "If a printed digital epitome is haram, this means that all the passports and identity cards [bearing pictures] are haram," he said.

Responding to this, Mufti Zubair said that Islam allows leniency at times when an individual is not in control of things. "When it is a matter of need, of identity, of a land's laws or of the needs of the state, a common person's power does non work," he said. "Having no other choice, (s)he can take advantage of this. You or I did not make the law near pictures on the currency note, passport, identity card and all other paperwork."

Allama Zaheer also said that printed photos on identity cards and passports are allowed. "Nosotros should terminate this disagreement, let'due south unite," he said.

Allama Mehdavi then quoted a fatwa of Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar Academy, which allows you to have photos on passports and other ID documents every bit long as you don't feel whatsoever engravings on the picture. Merely similar when you run your fingers on a mirror and tin can't feel any engraving."

Source: https://www.samaaenglish.tv/culture/2018/05/is-the-selfie-halal-or-haram-we-asked-ulema/#:~:text=According%20to%20Allama%20Hisham%20Elahi,artist%20is%20Allah%20(swt).

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