Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Why do some scholars appear in videos

I am aware that taking pictures isn't allowed in Islam, but I have

seen a lot of Mathieson Mahnaz pictures on their profiles in

social networking site, I just like to know is permissible for

them and not for the general public. Now, there's two, there's

many opinions about this. And one opinion is that digital pictures

are okay. Because they're not real pictures, they're kind of

temporary pixelation coming together, etc. So based on that,

that's probably what those Molana or those Imams or those scholars

are, are going with. That's why they do that.

Those who consider that that is not permissible as well, then they

will avoid that. So whichever opinion you want to follow, for

good reasons, then that's what you'd need to follow. But if this

is if this question is coming from a woman, then another issue that

you have is that to display your face in front of men, that becomes

problematic, which is a different issue, right? So there's a man's

issue. And there's a woman's issue about this, about this thing, and

you have to be careful, even on social, you know, closed social

sites, where it's password, etc.

Especially Facebook, I would never trust them, because they always

have these loopholes through which you know, you can see pictures,

etc. And a husband has to be just sitting there by his wife, and

she's checking her Facebook that and then not every wife on your

group, or not every woman in your group is going to be very

particular that she's going to shield you away from everybody

else, you have to remember that as well.

But anyway, the principle is what I mentioned is a difference of

opinion about this, right about about digital pictures. And that's

why I follow the opinion after I came back from the US in USA, I

didn't when I came back from the US, I believe in Digital

Photography, for Beyonce, and for our purposes, and that's why we

have some some Academy and that's why we do that, because that is

what people are looking for. They're not gonna listen to audio,

there's very few people that are gonna listen to audio. And there's

a lot of stuff out there that is incorrectly done on the video. So

we're just trying to provide what we consider to be, you know,

something beneficial and shallow on video. And that's why Mufti

Rafi Osmani, one of the great the Mufti of them of Pakistan, on one

video, he says, that I have a fear that Allah subhanahu wa taala is

actually going to question us that you had this great means to

propagate your religion and you still refuse to do so using it.

Right? Because people are going to probably watch more video lectures

than they are going to read a book. Right in general in general

speaking, however, this doesn't mean that you then abuse that

system and then you know, you just so I try to avoid as much as

possible just general pitches and stuff like that. But when it comes

to videos, you know, I do that as well. But again, there's two

different there are two opinions on this. Bla