{"id":6172,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/religious-sculptures\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:33","slug":"religious-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/religious-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I would like to ask you whether it is forbidden to  keep only images belonging to a specific religion, or is it also  forbidden to keep an image like a painting of an &#8220;ordinary&#8221; man (like  one&#8217;s neighbour) if one has believed that that man (ex.: the neighbour)  or even the painting itself is a god. And images of gods of ancient  religions (in Egypt one can find lots of them) no longer much practiced?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>I would avoid keeping paintings revered by any religious group.Keeping  any such painting may cause confusion regarding my religious ideas. In  surroundings where a certain things is revered by others I must be  practically declaring that I do not have any relation with that no  matter my love for art is well known. However, the paintings found in  ancient Egypt and the like may be kept as anyone who sees these will not  think that we worship these. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2014-12-22<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6172\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to ask you whether it is forbidden to  keep only images belonging to a specific religion, or is it also  forbidden to keep an image like a painting of an &#8220;ordinary&#8221; man (like  one&#8217;s neighbour) if one has believed that that man (ex.: the neighbour)  or even the painting itself is a god. 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They seem to be teaching fiqhs not the deen. Is fiqh that important that nowadays it is considered that important. The last line of defence they use is that you have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Miscellaneous","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/category\/miscellaneous\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgh6ci-1By","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}