Q: These days a business is going where gypsum or pop is put in moulds and then those articles like butterfly, astronaut or cartoon charcters are sold for kids to paint... Sometimes adult also do that. Is this business halaal?
A: Making moulds of animate objects is counted as picture making which is haraam. Rasulullah (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) has sounded severe warnings regarding pictures of animate objects. Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said, “The people to be inflicted with the worst punishment will be the picture makers." Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) has cursed the one who receives interest, the one who gives interest, the tattooist, the tattooed and the picture maker. The hadeeth also explains that the angels of mercy do not enter a home in which there is a picture of an animate object.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
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