Sorry for another question about photography, but there's a difference in our family on the matter and it's preventing us from taking pictures of a newborn for memories/keepsake. Could you provide a source for this answer so I could send it to them? : http://ask.fm/MajedJarrar/answers/136357852482
i) Those who say photography is forbidden have a multitude of flaws with their semantics, etymology, epistemology and analogy mechanics which lead them to that opinion.
ii) Saying that photography is prohibited because the prophet said photographers are in the hellfire, is as flawed and superficial as saying that happiness is forbidden because God says "Verily, God does not love the happy people." [28:76].
Yet, these same scholars agree that the word happy in the verse actually means arrogant, and the meaning has changed over the centuries, yet they insist on taking the word photography in the hadeeth in a literal way without understanding its historic context, relevance and analogy mechanism.
iii) Proving photography is permissible in easy steps:
1. A photo is a snippet of a video, and a video is a recorded version of a live stream.
2. Live steaming videos is analogous to mirrors. It is authentically reported that the prophet peace be upon him used mirrors and looked at himself in the mirror.
3. Recording live video to a saved video is analogous is storing documents from written speech, and the companions kept records of the hadeeth of the prophet in his life and he permitted it.
4. Photography is a snippet of videography, and its ruling would be a subdivision of its ruling.
iv) To answer in full I would need a full lecture or a research paper. #nobodygottimefordat
ii) Saying that photography is prohibited because the prophet said photographers are in the hellfire, is as flawed and superficial as saying that happiness is forbidden because God says "Verily, God does not love the happy people." [28:76].
Yet, these same scholars agree that the word happy in the verse actually means arrogant, and the meaning has changed over the centuries, yet they insist on taking the word photography in the hadeeth in a literal way without understanding its historic context, relevance and analogy mechanism.
iii) Proving photography is permissible in easy steps:
1. A photo is a snippet of a video, and a video is a recorded version of a live stream.
2. Live steaming videos is analogous to mirrors. It is authentically reported that the prophet peace be upon him used mirrors and looked at himself in the mirror.
3. Recording live video to a saved video is analogous is storing documents from written speech, and the companions kept records of the hadeeth of the prophet in his life and he permitted it.
4. Photography is a snippet of videography, and its ruling would be a subdivision of its ruling.
iv) To answer in full I would need a full lecture or a research paper. #nobodygottimefordat
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