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Are pictures and videos, on TV and computer monitor of animate objects forbidden if they serve the purpose of education?

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1)Your answers to 2737 and 1175 contradict your more recent answers to 5517 and 6175. 2)Q 5517 refers to videos of prayers in Mecca where the people are filmed reading salah. Please comment on this. 3)What about ultrasound pictures and videos of an unborn baby?

Answer

The Ulama differ in their opinions regarding the images that appear on TV
and videos.

According to many reliable Ulama like Mufti Taqi Usmani Saheb, that is not
strictly Tasweer (picture making) as it is not in durable form – refer
albalagh.net Many other reliable Ulama do not differentiate between an image
being durable or not. Hence, images on TV and videos is Tasweer and
prohibited. It is, therefore, best to exercise precaution and abstain from
any form of electronic capturing of animate picture.

However, in view of the differences of opinion, there is a leeway only in
the case of dire need, for example, to expose massacre and oppression
against Muslims. That is not so in using a video for entertainments like in
marriage ceremonies and parties.

and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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