Respected Sister Brothers,
Please, I really wish to know, is there any Specific Quranic verse having
restriction of taking / producing photograph of a living object by any means ?
Please reply me.
Muhammad Sadiq.
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Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] The Difference Between a Mirror Image and a
Photograph
The Difference Between a Mirror Image and a Photograph
By Moulana Imraan Vawda
POSTED: 15 RAJAB 1423, 22 SEPTEMBER 2002
CHECKED AND APPROVED CORRECT: Mufti Ebrahim Desai
Q.) I have a very strange question that has often come to my mind. We all
know that making of paintings (of living objects) and idols is prohibited in
Islam.
Lets look scientifically at the nature of the snapshots taken from a camera
or a live broadcast shown on a television. In case of a camera light is allowed
to fall on a photo-sensitive film and without any human interaction the actual
image gets preserved due to the ionization of silver coating on it.
Like-wise what is happening in a broadcast is that frames are being captured
as it is at the source and being aired in quick succession producing the
animation effect. No idol or painting is Made/Created. Its just the transfer
and preservation of a scene that is involved. Let me give an analogy in this
connection.
If a bird sits in front of a mirror and an observer sitting at a distance
sees the image of it in the mirror and cannot see the bird directly. Will it be
a sin? And if we have an array of mirrors so that the image is carried through
reflections over a considerable distance it would be just like a broadcast.
I look forward to a convincing and a comprehensive reply in light of the
above example. [Aamir Ansari]
A.) Your analogy is incorrect.
When looking at a photograph, the rays of light move from the photo onto the
eye. This is exactly what happens in the case of looking at a painting. When
looking at a mirror, the rays of light emit from the object and enter the eye.
The mirror only serves to redirect these rays of light. It would, therefore, be
correct to compare the photograph with a painting, and not with a mirror. And
Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Albalagh Note: It would shed some more light on the subject if we recall that
the mirror, unlike the electronic medium, cannot permanently hold the picture;
the picture vanishes as soon as the object being mirrored moves away.
