{"id":1972,"date":"2015-08-11T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T16:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.wordpress.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2015-08-11T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T16:27:45","slug":"the-ruling-on-owning-a-camera-shaikh-abdul-muhsin-al-abbad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"The Ruling on Owning a Camera &#8211; Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-&#8216;Abbad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><strong>Question<\/strong>: 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?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong>: &#8220;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&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[Sharh Sunan Abi Dawood no. 359]<\/p>\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan<br \/>\nAbu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: &#8220;Photographing humans, animals, and what possesses a soul is not allowed. As for photographing things that have no soul like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}