Pictures & Videos

Q: Is it permmissible just for security reasons to have a security camera screen in or outside of the musjid showing live people (the faces and the eyes of the people can not be seen so clearly on the screen) coming and going?

Q: What about digital pictures of living things?Are they legal or not in islam?

Q: Is storing pictures digitally in a mobile or computer haraam?

Q: Is it permissable to take pictures of animate objects without eyes or the head?

Q: Ulama say video recording is haram. But now a days there are many scholars who give their lectures on video. So what about that? Is it haram for normal people only?

Q: Is keeping pictures of our relatives etc in an album instead of hanging them on a wall also haraam?

Q: Is watching boxing or mma haraam?

Q: If pictures are haraam, why do we take photos for ID and passports and also security, and are enforced by regulations?

Q: Is the use of emoticons and smileys etc permissble? Is the drawing of eyes on inanimate objects eg cars with eyes considered as murat?

Q: A person just lost two sons in a car crash. She is putting up photos of them around the houses. What is the Hadith on this so as to explain to her?