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Acquiring/owning magazines within which are pictures

Question: What do you say regarding acquiring/owning magazines within which are pictures; Are these pictures from those which are forbidden?

Response: Acquiring/owning magazines within which are pictures is permissible if the purpose of buying them was for that which it (the magazine) contains of beneficial knowledge. And it is befitting for whoever acquired/owned them to efface all the pictures with ink or that which is similar. However, if the purpose of acquiring/owning it (the magazine) was for the pictures, then this is not permissible.

And with Allaah lies all success and may Allaah send prayers and salutations upon our Prophet (sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) and his family and his companions.

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research and Verdicts, comprising -

Head: Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez Ibn Abdullaah Ibn Baaz;

Deputy Head: Shaykh 'Abdur-Razzaaq 'Afeefee;

Member: Shaykh 'Abdullaah Ibn Ghudayyaan;

Member: Shaykh 'Abdullaah Ibn Qu'ood

Fataawa al-Lajnah ad-Daa.imah lil-Buhooth al-'Ilmiyyah wal-Iftaa., - Volume 1, Page 691, Question 2 of Fatwa No.3079

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Published: 13 May 2001