Photographic Memorabilia?

By Imaam Muhammad Bin Saalih Al ‘Uthaimeen (rahimahullah)

Feb 26, 2025

Q: May Allah reward you; the questioner, Hasan Hussein, says: I'm a young man, and I love taking pictures and preserving them. An occasion doesn't pass-by unless I've photographed it for the memories, and I preserve these pictures inside of an album; however, on many occasions, months pass without me ever opening the album to look at the pictures. What's the ruling on these pictures that I've taken and preserving them?

A: It's obligatory that you repent to Allah ('Azza wa Jall) for your actions, and to burn all of the pictures that you've saved immediately; because it's not permissible to preserve pictures for memory. Therefore, it's upon you to burn the pictures after you've heard what I just told you, and I ask Allah to guide me and you, and for salvation from that which He hates.