I was a portrait artist for over a decade and I left my portrait business for the sake of Allah after I listened to the hadith about the prohibition on displaying pictures/paintings that have a soul. Trust me, leave it for the sake of Allah and Allah will replace it with something even better. I'm still painting as it's my main business but I paint flowers, still lifes and food. Jazakallahu Khair Shaykh Yasir. May Allah bless you.
Sister, may I ask how is it that what you are doing now is better than what you have given up for the sake of Allah? I ask with the hopes that your answer will act as an inspiration for me to keep going. I am currently struggling in a years long battle to give up something for the sake of Allah (S.W.T.). One of the motivations I use is that Allah will replace it with something better. Jazak Allahu Khairun
An advice as a brother in islam Do not feel alone cause Allah is always there Do not feel ashamed or guilty about your past life Allah SWT is The Most Forgiving and The Most Merciful Whenever you need to talk to someone there are lots of sisters on the online community And Smile because it's Sunnah :)
Thank you for this very informative lecture. I will say that a few years ago I took all pictures of people down from the walls of my house and I find the house feels more peaceful.
Jazakallah for making sense of this very controversial topic. I feel much at ease. Your final few minutes of the video summarised it in an excellent way. Keep up the great work and don't be distracted by the critics who can only criticize but cannot produce a comprehensive document. Thank you for your hard work and guiding the current educated Muslims by making sense of Islam in these challenging days.,
Jazakallahu khayr. May Allahu subhanu wa taala blessed you shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi, your family and the EPIC family. The ummah benefitted much from you.
Assalamualaikum...Masha Allah Tabarak'Allah a real pleasure when I open UA-cam and come across your program brother Yasir Qadhi..love you for the sake of Allah...I pray Allah bless guide reward purity and protect you from all always..Ameen 👍💞🤲
Yazak Allahoe gayran for your efforts to help us understand and practice our deen to please Allah subhanaho wa ta3ala. May Allah protect you and your family ya cheikhanaa.
Jazakallah; as always very educational and practical approach . May Allah sw give you a long healthy life and may you continue to teach and educate us.
Thank you so much for claring this for us Sheikh! I have nearly 25000 digital pics and video clips of kids and families. And they are only 6 and 3 years old lol.😀
Asalaam aleikum, i wrote a comment about being a wedding photographer. This question is a continuation. I noticed most of the arguments mentioned that the cameras a capturing a reflection because of the mirror in them. Newer technology is leading to MIRRORLESS cameras. More like point and shoot cameras with no mirrors inside, are these permissible? I know you would understand this more since these terms aren’t very new to engineers. Your response will be appreciated
Assalamualaikum, a very good lecture about this topic! I personally considered myself as artist, but mostly I love creating stories, it is what i have always focus on. I create stories by drawings (in my case, very similar to comics/webtoons/storyboard). I have personally thought that as long as what i draw was not intended to be idolized, it would be fine, because what I am drawing is essentially characters (human) that are going through the story plot. Just like another comment stated, i have a hard time trying to swallow the information, that what i create would be a sin. And it would be as if i am recreating the creation of Allah. I am not displaying 'physically' of the drawings, but more of to be consumed, as in to be enjoyed/read upon. The sole focus was telling a story with a visual of the characters. I would like to know or confirm, that if this would still be considered impermissible, and that there is nothing to go around with it. It really does break my heart that if i do have to quit what i have love and what i consider pure of intention to be impermissible.
Great Lecture, I don't know if Sheikh will see this comment, if someone has fiqh knowledge can answer- Sheikh mentioned unanimously it is understood all 3d sculptures or statues are prohibited then how we can reconcile the issue of robotics that imitates human or animals?
Image from drawing and photography should be treated as similar if we consider the following: Previously, we capture images manually using our memory and ability to laying strokes and placing colours. Nowadays, we are replacing manual work with imaging technology (photography), which is still about capturing images. And, some talented artists can produce images with better aesthetics than photography (imaging technology). The same thing to sculpturing, today, we can do sculpturing using a method called 3D printing. We basically store the memory of the sculpture in the computer (adjusts and modify the way we want) and print it to produce a 3D sculpture. The machine is doing the work. My opinion (May be wrong)
They both differ in that our memories cannot possibly capture every single detail accurately and there is a high amount of creativity involved. And the resulting image of a painting totally depends on the artist. And always the artist is the one who is wholly praised for the work. On the contrary, the resulting image of a photograph does not totally depend on the photographer coz u may have a crow flying right in the middle just when u were trying to click your award winning photograph! And the resulting image is praised for its very existence and angle of view rather than the praise being attributed wholly to the photographer.
@@isaibnatman2155 their are artists who are not photogrsphers who dnt paint yet are praised for their work. The act of praise alone is not a criteria m Or else people are praised for a lot of things
I am CG artist and their is no difference between creating images from a photogrsph Or a painting. The hadiths dnt make the distinction between methods of creation so why should we? . Their these images are haram as well unless for things of necessity like MRI and XRay. Photography by definition means drawing through light. . As for videos they are made of images as well but they are not images. That's a different format. Even though they are made of frames of images. Even this video if paused is an image. Thus
Asalaam aleikum, thankyou for this video! I’m a wedding photographer & recently came across alot of debate on photographs. Pleaaaase if you can answer this question of mine. One of the sheikhs said that photographing women is haraam especially if I am to post them on social media, this makes it haraam due to hijab issues but I usually post after permission is granted from the bride/relatives! So is photographing women & weddings in general fall under impermissible acts. I’m definitely going to avoid printing photographs for clients because they usually hang them. Looking forward for your response pls!!! Jazakumullahu khairan.
This is something I have a whole lot of difficulty grasping, this is honestly the one ruling I find extremely difficult accepting. Its just crazy to me to think that drawing is haram to that degree. Ive always felt that the drawing of living beings would only be haram in the case that its for the intention of people worshipping those beings via that drawing. The thing that comes to mind for me is the old 8-bit super mario brothers images. The original ones, I just cant imagine something as small and silly as that being haram to such a major degree. What happens to any teacher who has drawing a smiley face on a A+ paper? I don't know and obviously am not a person of knowledge, I just find this so hard to grasp. I also have difficulty understanding the difference between creating an image and owning one. If creating images are haram because images are a form of shirk, why would we be allowed to own them? We can have things that dilute the purity of monotheism, we just cant make them ourselves????? May Allah forgive us all for our sins...
I dont know if you are aware but there are people in the world who worship and venerate even the tiniest of beings,some even worship a piece of ROCK!. And it all starts with a harmless act of attempting to recreate its form. Look up the story of how first idolism started during the time of Idris a.s. It started in a harmless way,and progressed to idop worshipping. Hence anything leading to shirk is also to be avoided.
@@sumanh9750 If anything leading to shirk should be avoided, then why would there be a difference in making images VS owning them? Either one would lead to shirk
My personal viewpoint (without any actual scripture basis) - smileys etc aren't meant to be imitation & drawing but rather is used as a universal language of expression. So I'm not sure if it even comes under creating 2-D living objects. Also many times you don't need to draw eyes for a smiley, just a curved line with concavity upwards in a circle will do just fine, you know, just to get out of controversy, until we know better. Wallahu a'lam
Assalamualikum sheikh, can you please share a light on the topic about Nasheed mixed with music, where name of Allah and the name of messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is mentioned. This is one of the most popular morden trend, I is it permissible?
Amazing... I was hoping Dear Sheikh would touch on having a dressmakers mannequin in the house. As a Fashion Designer for men I have a tailors Mannequin (Male figure). It's always covered with a garment, but an essential tool for my work. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?
it means portrait artist is allowed but only drawing an incomplete 2D images such like only face or head to the shoulder only on paper.. and the picture cannot placing on wall or exposing them stand bc an angel will not coming .. just let them in the book or floor or something like that.. what i understand is carving or sculpting is not permissible and the living images that placing on wall and complete living images.. right?
Salaam alaykum Shaykh Yasir, jzk for this vid, you mentioned you were going to cover digital art, but I didn't hear your thoughts on this - what about creating images that have souls using digital tools instead of analog (eg pens, brushes, etc)
I've noticed FreeQuranEducation channel (or some other channel, not sure) does digital drawing but stays away from eyes, mouth, nose etc. Their drawn 'faces' look just like a round with the rest of body.
MashaAllah very interesting lecture but it's confusing to me especially right now the time we're living with cartoons, tv, pictures etc so I feel like isn't it halal if you're creating AT LEAST a 2D image like drawing something or 3D image on a computer maybe not even based on a real person it's basically fictional as long as you're not using it as shirk you see? May Allah make the deen easier on me ameen! I ain't talking about haraam pictures obviously
@Tomato religious depictions of Things/venerated images that have a soul is not allowed as far as I know. Statues if incomplete (missing leg) is argued within the Maliki school. So if you admire LeBron James or Mohammed salah, then do not draw them.
I don't see any clear-cut conceptual and objective distinction among drawing, carving, painting, photographs, video, and 3-D statue, so long these are not worshipped. Any portrait of living (or even non-living being) if cause distraction during prayer should be removed from the front of salat place for having highest possible devotion and focus towards Allah. If angel dislike image hanged on wall, I guess she/he would not like to see it on floor, pillow etc either. Allah knows best. Thank you for an elaborate deliberation on the issue.
Salam can someone tell me where i can find the hadith that our profhet sws had gold dinar or silver derham in his house and gave it away inshallah someone will help djazak Allahu gairain
@Travellersalam can you give refrence to were i can find the hadith itself inshallah i dont have the book inshallah i will buy it but to shorten my search do you know the hadith number in hadith books and is this hadith sahih djazak allahu gairan
@@maganhassan2627 if its allowed for children someone has to create those sculptures / dolls fot them to play with so yhea but ur right Allah knows best
I was a portrait artist for over a decade and I left my portrait business for the sake of Allah after I listened to the hadith about the prohibition on displaying pictures/paintings that have a soul. Trust me, leave it for the sake of Allah and Allah will replace it with something even better. I'm still painting as it's my main business but I paint flowers, still lifes and food. Jazakallahu Khair Shaykh Yasir. May Allah bless you.
ever thought of getting into landscapes as well?
@@ibnakhal no, just focus on what I'm really good at. Thanks for asking. :))
Sister, may I ask how is it that what you are doing now is better than what you have given up for the sake of Allah? I ask with the hopes that your answer will act as an inspiration for me to keep going.
I am currently struggling in a years long battle to give up something for the sake of Allah (S.W.T.). One of the motivations I use is that Allah will replace it with something better.
Jazak Allahu Khairun
Mashallah brother... You have no idea what Allah swt would bless you with for this deed inshallah... ❤️
@@NazmusLabs we must never lose sight of the reward in the hereafter which is better and everlasting
Say what you want about YQ but one has to appreciate the sheer comprehensiveness of his answers. Jazak Allah Khair for this very helpful video.
@Check proofs of Islam in my playlists … Get a life
I really admire your humbleness Dr. Yasir.. Im a reverted to islam. And i learn alot from. Your lectures 😊😊💞thank you
Welcome to the larger family in the world, sister. May Allah (S.W.T.) shower His Mercy and Blessings upon you; Ameen.
An advice as a brother in islam
Do not feel alone cause Allah is always there
Do not feel ashamed or guilty about your past life Allah SWT is The Most Forgiving and The Most Merciful
Whenever you need to talk to someone there are lots of sisters on the online community
And Smile because it's Sunnah :)
Thank you for this very informative lecture. I will say that a few years ago I took all pictures of people down from the walls of my house and I find the house feels more peaceful.
Such a comprehensive presentation... When most of the online fatawa give us one sided explanation, Sh. Yasir Quadhi equips us to to take a stand...
Jazakallah for making sense of this very controversial topic. I feel much at ease. Your final few minutes of the video summarised it in an excellent way. Keep up the great work and don't be distracted by the critics who can only criticize but cannot produce a comprehensive document. Thank you for your hard work and guiding the current educated Muslims by making sense of Islam in these challenging days.,
Wow , what an informative lecture especially loved the closing comments. May Allah keep you in his Afiya and give us all goodness. Ameen
Jazakallahu khayr. May Allahu subhanu wa taala blessed you shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi, your family and the EPIC family. The ummah benefitted much from you.
Love the comprehensiveness as always. Thank you shaykh
Jajak Allahu khair for talking on this topic
JazakAllahu khayran Shaykhna for such beneficial advise.
Jazakallahu Khayran Ahsanul Jaza
Ya Sheikh your the most reasonable Islamic Scholar
JazakAllahu khayran Shaykhna
Excellent!!!!
Must listen... Finally clearly explained, all the opinions with evidences.
Assalamualaikum...Masha Allah Tabarak'Allah a real pleasure when I open UA-cam and come across your program brother Yasir Qadhi..love you for the sake of Allah...I pray Allah bless guide reward purity and protect you from all always..Ameen 👍💞🤲
Alhamdulillah .We are blessed to have you shaikh.
Yazak Allahoe gayran for your efforts to help us understand and practice our deen to please Allah subhanaho wa ta3ala. May Allah protect you and your family ya cheikhanaa.
Very informative. I have been wondering about this so much. Thank you for answering this question with such level of detail.
Jazakallah khair Sheikh
May Allah grant you endless reward, Ameen.
Jazakallahu khair.. Its clear now.. For some people everything default haram until you prove halaal..making religion too constricted
JazakAllah Khairan Shaykh. Your explanations are so helpful. Please keep up the good work.
May Allah Accept your works, and make it a means of acceptance and Guidance for the Ummah!
Jazakallah; as always very educational and practical approach . May Allah sw give you a long healthy life and may you continue to teach and educate us.
Ma sha Allah Jazzakallahu khair dear sheikh you helped me know more things about Islam
Salaam from Nottingham Uk
Thanks for guidenc informative lecture & it’s correlation with modern life
Subhanallah mashallah sheikh i've noticed the heartwarming short poetry cuplet in the beggining of your videos lol
Shukran
Some people obviously like to seek out difficulty and harshness in every matter.
Thank you so much for claring this for us Sheikh! I have nearly 25000 digital pics and video clips of kids and families. And they are only 6 and 3 years old lol.😀
@1:04:40, thanks for clarification. Due to this doubt, I don’t buy shirts with logo of living beings.
This Q&A series is amazing
Jzk may Allah blessed you
I like the lengthy Q&A
Asalaam aleikum, i wrote a comment about being a wedding photographer. This question is a continuation. I noticed most of the arguments mentioned that the cameras a capturing a reflection because of the mirror in them. Newer technology is leading to MIRRORLESS cameras. More like point and shoot cameras with no mirrors inside, are these permissible? I know you would understand this more since these terms aren’t very new to engineers. Your response will be appreciated
Jazakallahukhairan. I had hoped you'd also cover the making of 2D images in more detail. Hope you'll do that in future iA. I know some young artists.
Assalamualaikum,
a very good lecture about this topic!
I personally considered myself as artist, but mostly I love creating stories, it is what i have always focus on. I create stories by drawings (in my case, very similar to comics/webtoons/storyboard). I have personally thought that as long as what i draw was not intended to be idolized, it would be fine, because what I am drawing is essentially characters (human) that are going through the story plot. Just like another comment stated, i have a hard time trying to swallow the information, that what i create would be a sin. And it would be as if i am recreating the creation of Allah. I am not displaying 'physically' of the drawings, but more of to be consumed, as in to be enjoyed/read upon. The sole focus was telling a story with a visual of the characters. I would like to know or confirm, that if this would still be considered impermissible, and that there is nothing to go around with it. It really does break my heart that if i do have to quit what i have love and what i consider pure of intention to be impermissible.
now brother pls dont do fatwa shpping , where u choose one which fits ur narrative!! if u follow a scholar follow him wholly
Al hamde li Allah. الحمد لله
Great Lecture, I don't know if Sheikh will see this comment, if someone has fiqh knowledge can answer- Sheikh mentioned unanimously it is understood all 3d sculptures or statues are prohibited then how we can reconcile the issue of robotics that imitates human or animals?
Image from drawing and photography should be treated as similar if we consider the following:
Previously, we capture images manually using our memory and ability to laying strokes and placing colours. Nowadays, we are replacing manual work with imaging technology (photography), which is still about capturing images. And, some talented artists can produce images with better aesthetics than photography (imaging technology).
The same thing to sculpturing, today, we can do sculpturing using a method called 3D printing. We basically store the memory of the sculpture in the computer (adjusts and modify the way we want) and print it to produce a 3D sculpture. The machine is doing the work.
My opinion (May be wrong)
But its the human who is programming the machine and Allah SWT knows best
They both differ in that our memories cannot possibly capture every single detail accurately and there is a high amount of creativity involved.
And the resulting image of a painting totally depends on the artist. And always the artist is the one who is wholly praised for the work.
On the contrary, the resulting image of a photograph does not totally depend on the photographer coz u may have a crow flying right in the middle just when u were trying to click your award winning photograph!
And the resulting image is praised for its very existence and angle of view rather than the praise being attributed wholly to the photographer.
there is no difference in photos or drawings, the moron who fabricated these hadiths forbidding drawing didn't know photography would be invented.
@@isaibnatman2155 their are artists who are not photogrsphers who dnt paint yet are praised for their work. The act of praise alone is not a criteria m Or else people are praised for a lot of things
I am CG artist and their is no difference between creating images from a photogrsph Or a painting. The hadiths dnt make the distinction between methods of creation so why should we? . Their these images are haram as well unless for things of necessity like MRI and XRay. Photography by definition means drawing through light.
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As for videos they are made of images as well but they are not images. That's a different format. Even though they are made of frames of images. Even this video if paused is an image. Thus
Asalaam aleikum, thankyou for this video! I’m a wedding photographer & recently came across alot of debate on photographs. Pleaaaase if you can answer this question of mine.
One of the sheikhs said that photographing women is haraam especially if I am to post them on social media, this makes it haraam due to hijab issues but I usually post after permission is granted from the bride/relatives! So is photographing women & weddings in general fall under impermissible acts.
I’m definitely going to avoid printing photographs for clients because they usually hang them. Looking forward for your response pls!!! Jazakumullahu khairan.
Looks like you've trimmed down Ya shaykh. Mabrook. May Allah preserve you
This is something I have a whole lot of difficulty grasping, this is honestly the one ruling I find extremely difficult accepting. Its just crazy to me to think that drawing is haram to that degree. Ive always felt that the drawing of living beings would only be haram in the case that its for the intention of people worshipping those beings via that drawing. The thing that comes to mind for me is the old 8-bit super mario brothers images. The original ones, I just cant imagine something as small and silly as that being haram to such a major degree. What happens to any teacher who has drawing a smiley face on a A+ paper? I don't know and obviously am not a person of knowledge, I just find this so hard to grasp. I also have difficulty understanding the difference between creating an image and owning one. If creating images are haram because images are a form of shirk, why would we be allowed to own them? We can have things that dilute the purity of monotheism, we just cant make them ourselves????? May Allah forgive us all for our sins...
I dont know if you are aware but there are people in the world who worship and venerate even the tiniest of beings,some even worship a piece of ROCK!. And it all starts with a harmless act of attempting to recreate its form. Look up the story of how first idolism started during the time of Idris a.s.
It started in a harmless way,and progressed to idop worshipping.
Hence anything leading to shirk is also to be avoided.
@@sumanh9750 If anything leading to shirk should be avoided, then why would there be a difference in making images VS owning them? Either one would lead to shirk
If you find your answer, great; but regardless, "Sami'na wa ata'na" [of course, here I'm guessing we're believers & submitted ones (muslimeen)]
My personal viewpoint (without any actual scripture basis) - smileys etc aren't meant to be imitation & drawing but rather is used as a universal language of expression. So I'm not sure if it even comes under creating 2-D living objects. Also many times you don't need to draw eyes for a smiley, just a curved line with concavity upwards in a circle will do just fine, you know, just to get out of controversy, until we know better. Wallahu a'lam
@@Yazan61perhaps hear the talk again where he explained the "why" of your question?
I love you for the sake of Allah
It would have been very interesting the opinion of Shaykh al Islam ibn Taymiyyah on photograpy had he been alive.
Assalamualikum sheikh, can you please share a light on the topic about Nasheed mixed with music, where name of Allah and the name of messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is mentioned. This is one of the most popular morden trend, I is it permissible?
I have taken notes on this and added to my website.. feel free to have a look. link in the bio
👍
Amazing... I was hoping Dear Sheikh would touch on having a dressmakers mannequin in the house. As a Fashion Designer for men I have a tailors Mannequin (Male figure). It's always covered with a garment, but an essential tool for my work. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?
Put a face veil on it
it means portrait artist is allowed but only drawing an incomplete 2D images such like only face or head to the shoulder only on paper.. and the picture cannot placing on wall or exposing them stand bc an angel will not coming .. just let them in the book or floor or something like that.. what i understand is carving or sculpting is not permissible and the living images that placing on wall and complete living images.. right?
Salaam alaykum Shaykh Yasir, jzk for this vid, you mentioned you were going to cover digital art, but I didn't hear your thoughts on this - what about creating images that have souls using digital tools instead of analog (eg pens, brushes, etc)
I've noticed FreeQuranEducation channel (or some other channel, not sure) does digital drawing but stays away from eyes, mouth, nose etc. Their drawn 'faces' look just like a round with the rest of body.
I heard something about digital media at 31.40 not in detail though
Hi shaykh, what do you think about what happenned in Afghanistan?
What about 3d model of spider man and Batman who does not have clear face? And 3D characters in video games?
Show us your coin collection
What about making of animated cartoons and having teddy bears around house when they’re no kids
What about drawing a cartoon character or like an anime character?
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31:45 has your answer. It's very clear.
@@seljuzgaming its not clear at all, cartoons arent realistic at all and arent living beings however they do have faces
@@eyessmile6173 you hear what you want not what is said.
@@seljuzgaming well done 👏 ur putting down a teen ager whos sincerely askimg a question, stop attacking me and judging me ur not Allah SWT
Speak about Afghanistan defeat of U.S
55:04
58:30 key q's
Jazakillahu khairan. But if my children draw cartoon images is it haram??? Like pictures that look nothing like reality?
You can ask at seekersguidance
Can we hang our family photo on the wall..??
MashaAllah very interesting lecture but it's confusing to me especially right now the time we're living with cartoons, tv, pictures etc so I feel like isn't it halal if you're creating AT LEAST a 2D image like drawing something or 3D image on a computer maybe not even based on a real person it's basically fictional as long as you're not using it as shirk you see? May Allah make the deen easier on me ameen! I ain't talking about haraam pictures obviously
Shyakh: What about robots?
Good question I asked something similar
42:00 Is it permissible to carve a statue of a bearded turban?
@Tomato religious depictions of Things/venerated images that have a soul is not allowed as far as I know. Statues if incomplete (missing leg) is argued within the Maliki school.
So if you admire LeBron James or Mohammed salah, then do not draw them.
Whats the time for asking questions ?
Are gundam figurines permissible since they are robots and not people (no soul)
Also drawing robots
Does it mean we can't take selfies and all?
Salamu Alaikum, how can I send my questions to the sheikh
Is it permissible to draw cartoon characters?
I don't see any clear-cut conceptual and objective distinction among drawing, carving, painting, photographs, video, and 3-D statue, so long these are not worshipped. Any portrait of living (or even non-living being) if cause distraction during prayer should be removed from the front of salat place for having highest possible devotion and focus towards Allah. If angel dislike image hanged on wall, I guess she/he would not like to see it on floor, pillow etc either. Allah knows best. Thank you for an elaborate deliberation on the issue.
Salam can someone tell me where i can find the hadith that our profhet sws had gold dinar or silver derham in his house and gave it away inshallah someone will help djazak Allahu gairain
@Travellersalam can you give refrence to were i can find the hadith itself inshallah i dont have the book inshallah i will buy it but to shorten my search do you know the hadith number in hadith books and is this hadith sahih djazak allahu gairan
What will be the fate of my Funko Pop collection…XD
How could you own and not create
Spent the entire Q&A session on one question ?
is toys haram in islam to buy?
No
He spoke about it here 1:01:51
didn’t Aisha rA play with horse toys as a child why wouldn’t having them toys be haram ? if sculptures are haram?
@Traveller how's that an exception they were miniature sculptures
My guess is that it's allowed for children to play with that's what I read & heard & Allah knows best
@@maganhassan2627 if its allowed for children someone has to create those sculptures / dolls fot them to play with so yhea but ur right Allah knows best
shaykh u get ınto some UNNECESSARY details often. no need at all!
This man is misguided
May Allah have mercy upon you