Pictures & Videos

Using pictures for educational purposes

Q: Kindly advise us regarding on the following issues when they are done / used for educational purposes:

  1. Using text books or magazines, posters or any such literature which has animated pictures in them.
  2. Using caricature (cartoon) type of pictures when making a syllabus, specifically when we want to use them in preparing our own Arabic language syllabus. 

Using skype

Q: I would like to know whether the usage of skype to talk to my relatives abroad is permissible or not? Will it fall under picture making? Skype is live streaming?

Skype with a web-cam

Q: I wish to subscribe to Skype and utilise the services. Skype is a very cheap way of speaking to your friends and family throughout the world by means of the internet. However, if both sides have a webcam attached to the computer, then you can see each other live whilst talking. If I use this service to speak to only my mahrams or only to those people with whom conversation is allowed, will it be permissible?

Watching videos

Q: Some scholars say it is not permissible to make Islamic videos or take videos, but viewing it is permissible because Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) looked at idols, therefore it is permissible to view!