Ruling on working as a film developer
Question A muslim work at film development store, his job is taking film from customer put it in the machine to be devolpe. Is his income halal or not? Praise be to Allah. This ruling needs to be divided into categories. If he is developing pictures which people need for necessary reasons or for some…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
This
ruling needs to be divided into categories. If he is developing pictures
which people need for necessary reasons or for some reason which will
serve the general interest, then it is permissible to develop these
pictures and take that as a profession and a source of income, because
whatever is permitted for reasons of necessity or serving the common
interest, it is permissible to deal in it in all kinds of transactions
and contracts. What is permitted in essence for reasons of necessity,
it is also permitted to take its price. This kind of pictures and the
cameras and machines used for them are a means of serving a necessary
purpose which people need, and the means are subject to the same rulings
as the ends, provided that this is only done as much as is necessary
and as is needed to serve those needs and achieve that interest only,
based on the principle “actions based on necessity should measued by
that necessity.”
The
second type of pictures are those for which there is no need and which
do not serve any purpose. The most correct view concerning these pictures
is that they are haraam and that it is not permissible to keep these
pictures. Therefore it is haraam to develop these pictures.
See
Ahkaam al-Tasweer by Muhammad Waasil, p. 602.
See also the answer
to Question # 3243 concerning the earnings of one who makes images. And Allaah knows best.
