Printing Photographs

Printing Photographs

If you take a photo with a phone and then print it on paper, you cannot deny the tracing and forming required to obtain that printed image. It is well-known that the printed image is merely ink on paper, arranged by the printer.

This is very clear, and it necessitates the prohibition (Taḥrīm) of such printing.

Whoever prohibits printing images has fallen into a contradiction; for screens are merely a modern means of displaying images, and they are even more evil due to their superior ability to do so, which is obvious to everyone — inshāʾ Allāh.

Furthermore, whoever permits printing photographs but prohibits printing hand-drawn illustrations has also fallen into a contradiction, even greater than the first. This is because both papers were produced by the same machine, on the same paper, with the same ink. It is a grave error to distinguish between them simply because the method of applying the ink has changed.

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