Prohibition of making pictures in Islam

 

PROHIBITION OF DEPICTING ANIMATE LIFE

One
should realize that the prohibition of picture making is EXTREMELY
SEVERE, that it is counted among the enormities, and the threats
against doing it are very emphatic. Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim
relate that a man came to Ibn Abbas (Allah be well pleased with
him and his father) and said, “My livelihood comes solely
from my hands, and I make these pictures. Can you give me a legal
opinion about them” Ibn Abbas told him, “Come closer,’
and the man did. “Closer,” he said, and the man did,
until he put his hand on the man’s head and said: “Shall
I tell you what I heard from the Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammed
(Allah bless him and give him peace) I heard the Messenger of
Allah say, “Every maker of pictures will go to the fire,
where a being will be set upon him to torment him in hell for
each picture he made. So if you must, draw tress and things without
animate life in them.”

And
Imam Tirmidhi relates that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give
him peace) said, “On the Day of Judgment, part of the hell
fire will come forth with two eyes with which to see, two ears
with which to hear, and a tongue with which to speak, saying,
‘I have been ordered to deal with three: he who holds there
is another god besides Allah, with every arrogant tyrant, and
with makers of pictures.”

And
Bukhari, Tirmidhi, and Imam Nasa’i relate the prophetic
hadith form Ibn Abbas, “Whoever makes a picture, Allah shall
torture him with it on the Day of Judgment until he can breathe
life into it, and he will never be able to.”

The
reason for the unlawfulness of pictorial representation is that
it imitates the creative act of Allah Most High, as is indicated
by the hadith related by Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim that A’isha
(Allah be well pleased with her) said, “The Prophet (Allah
bless him and give him peace) returned from a trip, and I had
draped a cloth with picture on it over a small closet. When he
saw it, he ripped it down, his face colored, and he said, “A’isha,
the people most severely tortured by Allah on the Day of Judgment
will be those who try to imitate what Allah has created,”

The
foregoing hadiths show that producing representation is unlawful
under any circumstances, and just as making a picture is unlawful,
so too is procuring one, because the threat that pertains to the
users, for pictures are only made to be used.

The
determining factor in the prohibition of procuring images is the
purposes for which they are procured. For example, someone who
buys cookies with the shape of animals is not doing wrong if his
purpose is to eat, though the maker of them is doing wrong. And
similarly with books containing pictures, if the buyer intends
obtaining the text, then the presence of pictures is the fault
of the printer, not the buyer. The same holds for photographs
required for official documents: the authorities are responsible
for the sin, not the individual forced to comply.

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