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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم
338◾️The ruling of picturing the deceased◾️
Answered by Fadeelatushaykh Abu Hatim Yusuf Al-'Inaabi Al-Jazaa'iree - may Allah preserve him -
📥Question:
The questioner is also asking about the ruling on taking pictures of the dead.
📤Answer:
If the intention is to photograph the deceased because they are dead, then this is an evil in addition to the evil of picture making.
Making pictures of animate beings is forbidden, and what is meant by picturing animate beings isn't that the soul has to be presented therein.
But what is meant is that this is a creation from creations of Allah in which He has placed a soul therein; Whether the souls are still present therein or if they have been taken. This is forbidden. And the evidences for this are many: "Indeed the most severest of the people punished on the Day of Judgement will be the picture makers". And similarly in the other hadith, it will be said to them: "Give life to what you have created".
The reasoning behind this also comes in other Hadiths: "Those who imitate Allah's creating".
And other affairs which point that impermissibility of picture making is not only that it's a means to Shirk and other than this, rather also it in and itself being impermisible. Because it contains a competing with the imitating of Allah's creation. This is why Imam Al-Najdi, may Allah have mercy on him, made a chapter in his book: "Kitaabut-Tawheed" entitled "The chapter on the prohibition of picture making", or the likes of this.
He placed it in "Kitaabut-Tawheed" due to the connection of picture making to Tawheed. And not just because it is a means to Shirk. Rather because it involves Shirk.
This is because picture making is from the affairs specific to Allah, and that those who falls into picture making of animate beings, has imitated Allah's creating, and picture making is from the affairs which are specific to Allah.
Now if we added picture making of the deceased, then this is an additional prohibition in addition to mere picture making, this is because the condition of a deceased person is not the same as that of a living person, such as there being changes in his facial features, colour, etc. This exposes the deceased which are being picture to being humiliated. And similarly they are also affecting their family, because the deceased has a right in what relates to themselves. And they have a right which is connected to their families, and before this there is also a right connected to Allah exalted is He.
Allah exalted is He said:
(وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِىٓ ءَادَمَ)
"And We have certainly honored the children of Adam".
[Al-Isra':70]
And exposing the dead to taking pictures with them is not honoring them, rather it is what contradicts honoring human beings.
This is the summary of the answer to this, in that this is impermissible.
Due to impermissibility of picture making, and due to the impermissibility of subjecting the deceased to humiliation, and also affecting the right of his family, and also - before this - the right of Allah exalted is He.
📁 س/ ما حكم تصوير الميت؟
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Translated by:
Abu Ibraheem 'Abdullaah bin Ahmed Ash-Shingaani
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