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Islamic ruling on picture making

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The majority of scholars make no distinction between three-dimensional images and drawings and state, and this is the correct view, that both are forbidden.

Images that are captured by hand are no different from three-dimensional images. Rather, it is a type of major sin, based on the hadeeth of Ali ibn Abī Tālib (who said to Abul Hiyāj al-Asadī, “Shall I not send you on the same mission as Allah’s Messenger (sent me? Do not leave an image without erasing it or a high grave without levelling it.

” It would seem that this narration is in reference tpaintings/drawings and not statues because if it were referring to statues, it would have used terminology such as, “do not leave an image without smashing it”.