Question: I am a youth who bought a camera and I hide it from my father. So he found it and took it. He said: Pictures are unlawful. So what is your opinion?
Answer: “Photographing humans, animals, and what possesses a soul is not allowed. As for photographing things that have no soul like a tree or building and the likes of that, then there is no harm in it. So if the pictures are of something prohibited, then it is not allowed to own a camera. If the pictures are of something permissible to photograph, then there is no harm in owning a camera”.
[Sharh Sunan Abi Dawood no. 359]
Translated by
Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan
