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Graphic designer
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and
whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness
that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 7.834 Narrated by
Muslim
We were with Masruq at the house of Yasar bin
Numair. Masruq saw pictures on his terrace and said, "I heard 'Abdullah
saying that he heard the Prophet (saws)
saying, "The people who will receive the severest punishment from
Allah will be the picture makers.' "
Graphic designing or drawing portraits and pictures of
animate objects is absolutely forbidden.
My
question is, being a designer i have to place pictures like of hero, heroines,
models, hindu bhagwans etc.. in magazines / pamplet / posters. i want to ask
whether it is halal / haram.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Anaam
verse 74:
74 Lo! Ibraheem
said to his ‘Abi’ (father) Azar: "Takest
thou idols for gods? For I see thee and thy people in manifest error!"
Allah says in the Quran: Chapter 4 Surah An-Nisa
Verse 48
Shirk (associating other deities with Allah) is
the only sin that Allah does not forgive, and He forgives, whomsoever He
pleases, sins other than this. For
whosoever associates any other partner with Allah, does indeed forge a big lie
and commits the most heinous sin.
My dear beloved brother, In the sight of Allah
Subhanah, the most heinous of all
sins is ‘shirk’ or associating,
invoking, worshipping or sharing of any of
Allah’s Attributes with anyone or anything else. This sin of ‘shirk’ is so heinous and so
monstrous, that Allah Subhanah has
declared this sin unforgiveable on the Day of Judgment, and made Paradiseharaam for those who
die while in the state of shirk.
What is absolutely and categorically prohibited in Islam,
and what has been categorized as the one absolute unforgivable sin and crime of
‘shirk’.
Respected brother in Islam, it is not permissible in
Shariah for the believers to make animate objects leave alone selling idols or
statues! It is also not lawful in
Shariah to buy or sell or derive any benefit whatsoever from such unlawful
objects.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 2 (part):
……Help ye one another in righteousness and piety
but help ye not one another in sin
and rancor: fear Allah: for Allah is strict in punishment.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah
Nisaa verse 19 (part):
85 Whoever
recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner therein: and whoever recommends and helps an evil
cause shares in the burden (of the sin): and Allah hath power over all
things.
Thus if one works for or is employed by a business which
deals solely in ‘haraam’ products or services, or whose primary business is
from unlawful products….for example bars serving alcohol, or gambling casinos,
or prostitution dens, or interest-based commercial banks, or making idols,
etc…..without an iota of a doubt, one would share an appropriate burden of the
sin for dealing in and facilitating products and services which have been
clearly declared as ‘haraam’ by Allah and His Messenger (saws).
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 3.267
Narrated by An Numan bin Bashir
The Prophet (saws) said "Both legal
(halaal) and illegal (haraam) things are obvious, and in between them are
(suspicious) doubtful matters. So whoever forsakes those doubtful things lest
he may commit a sin, will definitely avoid what is clearly illegal; and whoever
indulges in these (suspicious) doubtful things bravely, is likely to commit
what is clearly illegal. Sins are
Allah's Hima (i.e. private pasture) and whoever pastures (his sheep) near it,
is likely to get in it at any moment."
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