Images and image-making

I m a woman and I live in UK, and I was wondering whether taking pictures of myself and sending them to my family who might be living around the world, is Allowed?

27 Feb

It is forbidden to send such photos to your family. It is permissible however to have Skype online and to take with them live.

My problem is that i know some ahadith that say creating animate objects are haraam in Islam and that ,in the hereafter, we will be asked to insert soul in the pictures that we drew and face many other punishments. I always have been into arts and drawing

Images and image-making

27 Feb

My case is, that i want to become a professional artist but i want to spread awareness among the masses in my works. I want to remove misconceptions about Islam, i want to do Islamic art, calligraphy, abstracts and so on. I know the idoltary started from drawing animate objects as well but its just […]

Is it ok if I just remove the eyes from the pictures of living things from garments, or it is necessary to remove the entire head from the picture. Please let me know.

Images and image-making

27 Feb

If you cover the face, this would be enough, in sha’ Allah.

I wanted to ask about this little thing which I received through the post. On it there were some weird images of a magician and a skeleton head. I think it had Urdu writing and Bengali, but I couldn’t read it….

Images and image-making

27 Feb

…I read the English, and I found that this person was challenging everyone with what he called his knowledge. He claimed he can help someone without them visiting him and other things… I got really angry with this because I realised it had something to do with Magic, so although I was not sure whether […]

According to the Quran & Sunnah, what does Islam say about someone keeping a picture of a relative,etc… passed away, keeping it in a wallet?…

Images and image-making

27 Feb

… Also keeping it in a small booklet but it’s hidden & not shown around in the house e.g walls, calendar, frames etc or in public. This is not permissible as this is how Shirk started in the first place as Ibn Abbas may Allah be pleased with him said. That it is why it […]

I am a female fine arts student . My problem is that i know some ahadith that say creating animate objects are haraam in Islam and that ,in the hereafter, …

Images and image-making

27 Feb

…we will be asked to insert soul in the pictures that we drew and face many other punishments. I always have been into arts and drawings. Painting is what i always wanted to learn. My case is, that i want to become a professional artist but i want to spread awareness among the masses in […]

Drawing faces or pictures of living beings is haram, but on forums and other places on the internet people draw emoticons using symbols, for example :D represents a smiling face if u look at it vertically. is this haram?.

Images and image-making

27 Feb

Praise be to Allaah. It seems – and Allaah knows best – that this face, whether it is smiling or sad, does not come under the same ruling as images that it is forbidden to make, draw, or use, for two reasons: 1 – It contains none of the features of a real face, such […]