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Fiqh
Can we have our family photos in frames on the walls in our house?
So two views on this and it's important to explain both. The hadith is collected in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim where the Prophet ﷺ said that angels do not enter a house in which there are images in it. That's one version of the hadith, there are other versions as well. Now what did the Prophet ﷺ refer to when he said images? This is the key discussion point. So at the time of the Prophet ﷺ, photographs didn't exist 1400 years ago. What did exist were things like idols and sculptures and things like that. So the word tasweer is used here which comes from sawara. Sawara means to physically do, to make something. So a number of scholars say that the hadith refers to sculptures, idols, things of that nature that are physically made. A second group of scholars say no, it refers to any type of images that would include photographs. Now if you look at it in the world now, many of the scholars from the subcontinent, they would take the view that it's photographs that it's referred to that are not permissible. A number of the Arab scholars, however, would say no, it's sculptures. So if you're not comfortable taking the first view, which is that is referring to idols and sculptures, you can always avoid it, that way you're out of the difference of opinion. But it's important to note that there are two views on this particular issue.