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Bad Omens Authenticity of Hadith "Run from the leper as you run away from a lion" Being superstitious of months, days, birds and the like Taswir Photographs taken for necessity or for decorative purposes Taking photographs of living creaturesPhotography and keeping photographsPhotography in IslamTaking photographs of humans and other beingsTaking photographs of creatures with souls using cameras or the likeTaking photos of living beings is unlawful whether the photo is three-dimensional, photographic, manual, or sculpturePhotography and buying magazines that have pictures in themPhotographySuspicions about the unlawfulness of photographyTelevised images on TV and videotapesDrawing living beingsTaking photographs of living creaturesAbsolute prohibition of taking photographs of living creaturesChina decorated with pictures and used only when necessaryCursing both Musawwir and the one whose photo is takenEarning living from photography and putting photos of living beings at homesThe passion for the physical formIllustrative images in academic and scientific books and magazinesDrawing illustrative images on the board during teachingUsing drawings and shapes of living beings such as humans and the likeTaswir of non-living beingsScale models of the two Sacred MosquesPutting photographs of animals or humans in a MasjidTaking photographs of animate creatures or hanging them in Masjids and other placesPossessing magazines that contain photographsKeeping daily newspapers and magazines which include picturesPictures inside the booksTaking photographs and making sculptures of living beingsSculpture and photography of living beingsErecting statuesStatues and the so-called "Unknown Soldier Monument"Sculpture, classical paintings, and abstract art Attitude of artists towards the Hadiths prohibiting TaswirTaking photographs of living beings such as human beings and animals and keeping the photosTaking family photographsTaking photos of the bride, bridegroom, and their families at weddingsKeeping photos as mementosPhotographing womenTaking photos of Muslims offering congregational Salah and of children reciting the Qur'anPictures on paper moneyKeeping pictures of living beings hung on the wallHanging pictures on the wallsHanging pictures on the walls of housesKeeping the prohibited photosKeeping pictures even if not hung on wallsSelling statues as a professionProhibition of taking photos of living beings and earning a living from themDepicting the CompanionsThe price of selling prohibited photosOwning stuffed birds and animalsPossessing stuffed birds sold as gifts and decorative ornamentsPutting photos in ID cardsPhotography to get an ID cardPhoto of a woman's face in a passport"Angels do not enter the house in which there is a picture, a statute or a dog"Copying images and earning a living from photographyProhibition of taking photographs of living beings such as people and animals, unless when necessaryPhotocopying ID cards and documents that bear photographs Major Shirk The difference between major Shirk and minor Shirk The meaning of "And do not marry Al-Mushrikat"Invoking other than Allah such as Jinn, dead and absentees and those who follow idolatrous conventionsSimilarity of committing acts of Shirk and never entering IslamObeying Allah in His legislationsPraying behind someone who invokes other than AllahAllah created all creatures to worship Him AloneSending peace on Allah's Messenger while facing his grave and deeds of major and minor ShirkManifestations of Shirk in Muslim CommunitiesRuling on violating Islamic `Aqidah out of ignorance Minor Shirk Refraining from doing a deed because of people is Riya' and doing a deed because of them is Shirk Persisting to follow Allah's Orders and abstain from His Prohibitions seeking His Reward and fearing His PunishmentSwearing by other than AllahExpressing pride in being knowledgeable to othersGetting rid of ostentation Tawaghit Those who judge by other than Allah's revealed laws Obligation of appealing to the Qur'an and the Sunnah for legal rulings in case of disputesThe meaning of Al-Taghut and interpreting the Ayah "They wish to go for judgement (in their disputes) to the Taghut"Taghut is anything in which a servant exceeds the limits whether it is worship, following, or obedienceNot everything worshiped besides Allah is considered as TaghutImpermissibility of pursuing lawsuits under a non-Muslim governmentSeeking judgment from Shari`ah and not from tribal rulesGovernments ruling according to laws not revealed by Allah as non-Muslim governmentsParticipating in enacting a law opposing Islamic rulingsMuslims voting for non-Muslims in electionsA Muslim cooperating with a Christian in whatever does not contradict with Islamic Shari`ahTaking oaths to respect positive lawsRuling on invoking Allah against a ruler who does not judge according to what Allah has revealedStudying positive laws and working as an attorneyStudying positive laws and working as an attorney or a judge
Bad Omens
Authenticity of Hadith "Run from the leper as you run away from a lion" Being superstitious of months, days, birds and the like
Taswir
Photographs taken for necessity or for decorative purposes Taking photographs of living creaturesPhotography and keeping photographsPhotography in IslamTaking photographs of humans and other beingsTaking photographs of creatures with souls using cameras or the likeTaking photos of living beings is unlawful whether the photo is three-dimensional, photographic, manual, or sculpturePhotography and buying magazines that have pictures in themPhotographySuspicions about the unlawfulness of photographyTelevised images on TV and videotapesDrawing living beingsTaking photographs of living creaturesAbsolute prohibition of taking photographs of living creaturesChina decorated with pictures and used only when necessaryCursing both Musawwir and the one whose photo is takenEarning living from photography and putting photos of living beings at homesThe passion for the physical formIllustrative images in academic and scientific books and magazinesDrawing illustrative images on the board during teachingUsing drawings and shapes of living beings such as humans and the likeTaswir of non-living beingsScale models of the two Sacred MosquesPutting photographs of animals or humans in a MasjidTaking photographs of animate creatures or hanging them in Masjids and other placesPossessing magazines that contain photographsKeeping daily newspapers and magazines which include picturesPictures inside the booksTaking photographs and making sculptures of living beingsSculpture and photography of living beingsErecting statuesStatues and the so-called "Unknown Soldier Monument"Sculpture, classical paintings, and abstract art Attitude of artists towards the Hadiths prohibiting TaswirTaking photographs of living beings such as human beings and animals and keeping the photosTaking family photographsTaking photos of the bride, bridegroom, and their families at weddingsKeeping photos as mementosPhotographing womenTaking photos of Muslims offering congregational Salah and of children reciting the Qur'anPictures on paper moneyKeeping pictures of living beings hung on the wallHanging pictures on the wallsHanging pictures on the walls of housesKeeping the prohibited photosKeeping pictures even if not hung on wallsSelling statues as a professionProhibition of taking photos of living beings and earning a living from themDepicting the CompanionsThe price of selling prohibited photosOwning stuffed birds and animalsPossessing stuffed birds sold as gifts and decorative ornamentsPutting photos in ID cardsPhotography to get an ID cardPhoto of a woman's face in a passport"Angels do not enter the house in which there is a picture, a statute or a dog"Copying images and earning a living from photographyProhibition of taking photographs of living beings such as people and animals, unless when necessaryPhotocopying ID cards and documents that bear photographs
Major Shirk
The difference between major Shirk and minor Shirk The meaning of "And do not marry Al-Mushrikat"Invoking other than Allah such as Jinn, dead and absentees and those who follow idolatrous conventionsSimilarity of committing acts of Shirk and never entering IslamObeying Allah in His legislationsPraying behind someone who invokes other than AllahAllah created all creatures to worship Him AloneSending peace on Allah's Messenger while facing his grave and deeds of major and minor ShirkManifestations of Shirk in Muslim CommunitiesRuling on violating Islamic `Aqidah out of ignorance
Minor Shirk
Refraining from doing a deed because of people is Riya' and doing a deed because of them is Shirk Persisting to follow Allah's Orders and abstain from His Prohibitions seeking His Reward and fearing His PunishmentSwearing by other than AllahExpressing pride in being knowledgeable to othersGetting rid of ostentation
Tawaghit
Those who judge by other than Allah's revealed laws Obligation of appealing to the Qur'an and the Sunnah for legal rulings in case of disputesThe meaning of Al-Taghut and interpreting the Ayah "They wish to go for judgement (in their disputes) to the Taghut"Taghut is anything in which a servant exceeds the limits whether it is worship, following, or obedienceNot everything worshiped besides Allah is considered as TaghutImpermissibility of pursuing lawsuits under a non-Muslim governmentSeeking judgment from Shari`ah and not from tribal rulesGovernments ruling according to laws not revealed by Allah as non-Muslim governmentsParticipating in enacting a law opposing Islamic rulingsMuslims voting for non-Muslims in electionsA Muslim cooperating with a Christian in whatever does not contradict with Islamic Shari`ahTaking oaths to respect positive lawsRuling on invoking Allah against a ruler who does not judge according to what Allah has revealedStudying positive laws and working as an attorneyStudying positive laws and working as an attorney or a judge