The Position of Ibn ʿUthaymīn on Image-Making By The Shaykh ʿAbdurraḥmān bnu Nāṣir al-Barrāk
The Position of Ibn ʿUthaymīn on Image-Making
By the shaykh: ʿAbdurraḥmān bnu Nāṣir al-Barrāk.
18/7/1428 AH
Source: (الدرر السنية) website.
Translated and prepared by:
ʿAbdurraḥmān bnu Mīhūb al-Qaddārī
Introduction
Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, رحمه الله, said:
Muʿādh ibn Jabal, رضي الله عنه, said:
“Ahead of you are trials in which wealth will become abundant, and the Qurʾān will be widely circulated, until it is taken up by the believer and the hypocrite, the man and the woman, the young and the old, the slave and the free. Then a person will soon say: ‘What is wrong with the people that they do not follow me, when I have recited the Qurʾān? They will not follow me until I introduce something new for them.’
So beware of newly invented matters, for whatever is invented is misguidance. And I warn you against the deviation (i.e slip) of the scholar, for indeed Shayṭān may utter a word of misguidance upon the tongue of a scholar, and a hypocrite may utter a word of truth.”
He said: I said to Muʿādh: “How will I know—may Allah have mercy on you—that a scholar has said a word of misguidance, and that a hypocrite has said a word of truth?”
He replied: "Yes. Avoid from the words of the scholar those statements that become widely known (for its falsehood) and about which it is said: ‘What is this?!’ But let that not turn you away from him, for perhaps he may retract. And accept the truth when you hear it, for indeed upon the truth there is light.”
Ṣaḥīḥ mawqūf. Reported by Abū Dāwūd (4611) and authenticated by al-Albānī in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd (3855).
Tr: Umm ʿAbdirraḥmān as-Sūdāniyyah.