Prohibition on making statues
Question: 34839
What is the Islamic attitude towards erecting statues for various purposes?.
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
Erecting statues for any
purpose is haraam, whether that is as a memorial to kings, commanders of
armies, prominent figures and reformers, or as a symbol of wisdom and
courage, like the statue of the Sphinx etc, or for any other purpose,
because of the general meaning of the saheeh ahaadeeth that forbid that, and
because it is a means that leads to shirk as happened to the people of
Nooh.
Source:
From Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 1/478
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