Don't Be So Soft With Pictures
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī
The point of evidence: her statement: "he tore it"
So, my brothers in Īmān—those who take the Messenger of Allāh, ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam, as their example—those who wipe only the face and leave the head; those who treat images gently, softly, leniently; those who do not feel the reprehensibility of those images: Obliterate every image, without leaving a trace.
What benefit is that image? Why expose yourself to the Fire of Jahannam? What wisdom is there in that? (A rhetorical question, of course).
Think about it. Imagine you were living in the time of the Messenger, ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam, and he saw you wiping only the face, keeping it with you, and displaying it openly.
لا إله إلا الله.
5954) ʿAlī bnu ʿAbdillāh narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us; he said: I heard ʿAbdurraḥmān bnu al-Qāsim—there was no one in Madīnah at that time better than him—say: I heard my father say: I heard ʿĀʾishah, may Allāh be pleased with her, say:
The Messenger of Allāh, ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam, returned from a journey, and I had covered a niche of mine with a thin curtain that had figures on it. When the Messenger of Allāh, ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam, saw it, he tore it and said: "The most severely punished on the Day of Resurrection are those who imitate the [act of] creation of Allāh".
She said: So we turned it into a cushion, or two.
The point of evidence: her statement: "he tore it"
So, my brothers in Īmān—those who take the Messenger of Allāh, ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam, as their example—those who wipe only the face and leave the head; those who treat images gently, softly, leniently; those who do not feel the reprehensibility of those images: Obliterate every image, without leaving a trace.
What benefit is that image? Why expose yourself to the Fire of Jahannam? What wisdom is there in that? (A rhetorical question, of course).
Think about it. Imagine you were living in the time of the Messenger, ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam, and he saw you wiping only the face, keeping it with you, and displaying it openly.
لا إله إلا الله.