Ruling on taking pictures with digital cameras and video cameras
Question What is the ruling on taking pictures with a digital camera? What is the ruling on taking pictures with a video camera? Praise be to Allah. Taking pictures with a digital camera is of two types: 1. When the picture is a photograph or still picture. This is not permissible unless the aim is…
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Praise be to Allah.
Taking pictures with a digital camera is of two types:
1.
When the picture is a photograph or still picture. This is
not permissible unless the aim is to use the picture in a permissible
manner, such as pictures that are needed in order to prove identity or for a
passport or driver’s license, or posting pictures of criminals so that they
will be known, and other valid purposes.
It is
not permissible to take pictures just for the purpose of memory and keeping
the picture, as many people do.
See
also the answer to question no. 10326
2.
When the picture that is taken with the digital camera is a
moving image, as in the case of video clips. There is nothing wrong with
this, and it does not come under the prohibition.
But
it is not permissible to take pictures of anything that will help in sin or
be a source of temptation, such as pictures of adorned women or places of
evildoing, or places of bid‘ah and shirk by way of venerating them and
telling people about them.
See
also the answer to question no. 10326
And
Allah knows best.
