torsdag 12 november 2009

IMAGES-DRAWINGS-PAINTINGS-PHOTOGRAPHY and SCULPTURES?

The Islamic Ruling Concerning Tasweer (image-making)

<It is not for believer, man or woman, when Alláh and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Alláh and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.>
[Al-Quraan 33:36]



Narrated ´Abdullah ibn ´Umar (may Allah be pleased with him and his father):
Alláhs Messenger (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) said:
Those who make these images (suwar) will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said to them, Make alive what you have created.


[al-Bukhaaree 7/541, no.835; Muslim 3/1160, no.5268. The wording is from Al-Bukhaaree.]


The lesson we learn from this hadith is the stern and unquestionable prohibition of making imagens of that which has a soul. We are informed that the one who makes these images will be punished on the day of Judgement and required to put a soul into (make alive) that which he has made an image of. This he will absolutely not be able to do.
[Nuzhatul-l-Muttaqeen, Sharh Riyadh as-Saaliheen, 2/1150, no.1689.]



Aa´isha (may Alláh be pleased with her) reported:
Allahs Messenger (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) came back from a journey and I had screened my door with a curtain having (images) of winged horses on it. He ( peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) commanded me (to remove it). So, I pulled it down.
[This is the wording narrated by Muslim- 3/1158, no.5256]

[Al-Bukhaarees narration 7/542, no.839, is:]
...I had hung a thick curtain having images (tamaatheel). He (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) commanded me to remove it, so I pulled it down.



Narrated Aa´isha ( may Alláh be pleased with her) the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) who said:
I bought a cushion (numruqah) having images (tasaaweer) on it. When Allaáhs Messenger (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) saw it, he stopped at the door and did not enter. She noticed the sign of strong disapproval on his face. She said: O Alláhs Messenger! I turn to Alláh and His Messenger in repentance. What sin have I committed? He said: What is this cushion for? I said: I bought it for you to sit on and recline on. Alláhs Messenger (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) said: ´´The makers of these images (suwar) will be punished (severely) on the Day of Resurrection and it will be said to them, Make alive what you have created. He (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) added: ´´Angels do not enter a house on which there are images (suwar).
[al-Bukhaaree 7/545, no.844; Muslim 3/1159, no.5266.]




Abu´l-Hayyaaj al-Asadee said:

Alee ibn Abu Taalib (may Alláh be pleased with him) said to me: Shall I not send you on the same mission as Alláhs Messenger (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) sent me? Do not leave an image (TIMTHAAL) without obliterating/effacing it, nor a grave which is raised above the ground without leveling it to the ground.


Imaam Muslim said: This hadith has also been reported to me by Abu Bakr ibn Khallaad al-Baahilee, from Yahya ibn al-Qattaan, from Sufyaan, from Habeeb [ibn Abu Thaabit] by this chain of narrators [i.e., Abu Waail, from Abu´l- Hayyaaj al-Asadee]nthat Alee (may Allah be pleased with him) said: ´´(do not leave) an image (SURAH) without obliterating/effacing it.´´
[Muslim 2/459, no.2115.]



Imaam Muslim said: I read this hadith to Nasr ibn ´Alee al-Jahdamee (the shaykh of Imaam Muslim) who heard the hadith from Abdul-A´laa ibn Abdul-A´laa. from Yahya ibn Abu Ishaaq, from Sa´eed ibn Abu´l-Hasan, who said:

A man came to Ibn Abbaas (may Alláh be pleased with him and his father) and said: I am a person who makes images (suwar); give me a religious verdic (fatwa) about them. He (Ibn Abbaas) said to him: come near me. The man then came near to him. Then he (ibn Abbaas) said (again): come near me. So, he came nearer to him, until he placed his hand on the mans head and said: I am going to inform you of what I heard from Alláhs Messenger (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him). I heard him say ´´Every image-maker (musawwir) will be in the fire of Hell. A soul will be made for him for every image which he has made, and it will punish him in the Hell-fire.´´ Ibn Abbaas (may Alláh be pleased with him and his father) said: If you must do it (i.e., make these images), then make (images of) trees and lifeless things (´´ash-shajarah wa maa laa NAFS lahu´´). Thereupon, Nasr ibn ´Alee al-Jahdamee (the Shaykh if Imaam Muslim) confirmed this hadith.
[Muslim 3/1161, no.5272]

In al-Bukhaarees narration:
...What a pity! If you insist on making images, I advise you to make images of trees, eveything that does not have a soul (´fa-alayka bi´sh-shajarah, kulli shay´in laisa feehi rooh). [Al-Bukhaaree 3/235, no.428]



Abu Hurairah (may Alláh be pleased with hm) reported the Messenger of Alláh (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon him) as saying:

Jibreel came to me and said: I came to you last night and was prevented from entering simply by the fact that there were statues (tamaatheel) at the door, and there was in the house a curtain with pictures (tamaatheel) on it, and there was a dog in the house. So, order that the head of the statue (timthaal) which is in the house be cut off so that it may become like the form of a tree; order that the curtain be cut up and made into two cushions spread out on which people walk; and order that the dog be put out. The Messenger of Alláh (peace and blessings of Alláh be upon tim) then did so. The dog belonged to al-Hasan or al-Husain (may Alláh be pleased with them all) and was under their couch (nadad). So, he ordered it to be turned out, and it was done.

[Sunan Abu Dawood 3/1549, no.416.] - Declared authentic (saheeh) by Shaykh al-Albaanee in his Saheeh Sunan Abu Daawood 2/783, no.3504/4158.

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