{"id":32220,"date":"2024-08-13T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=32220"},"modified":"2024-08-13T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:51:40","slug":"whats-the-ruling-of-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/whats-the-ruling-of-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Ruling of Photoshop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 07388<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>Answered by: Mufti Syed Johir Miah<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><u><b>Question:<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">What\u2019s the ruling of photoshop?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><u><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><u><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Before classifying anything as permissible or impermissible, we need to look at what its functions are and what the aim of such an item is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Photoshop is a photo editing and manipulation software. Its uses range from the full-featured editing of large batches of photos to creating intricate digital paintings and drawings that mimic those done by hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Photoshop can be found in the advertisements to magazines as we are endlessly surrounded by unrealistic images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">This is because we live in such a society that promotes a flawless physique and features as the \u201cnorm\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Sayyiduna Abu Huraira ( \u0631\u0636\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647 ) reported that the Messenger (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) of Allah (\u0639\u0632 \u0648 \u062c\u0644) said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0645\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u062d\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0644\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0646\u064e\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0651\u0650\u0644\u064e\u0627\u062d\u064e \u0641\u064e\u0644\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0633\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u063a\u064e\u0634\u0651\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627 \u0641\u064e\u0644\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0633\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e\u0627<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u201cWhoever raises arms against us is not one of us. Whoever deceives us is not one of us.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The usage of technology is dependent on its usage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If it is used in line with the Shariah, then it will be permissible<sup>2<\/sup>. However, if it is used in a haram method or cause such as to completely distort a person\u2019s body into something it is not, then it will be impermissible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Mufti Syed Johir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">1 Sahih Muslim, Hadith Number 101, 99\/1, Dar Ihyat Turath, Beirut, Lebanon, 1412 H.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">2 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0648\u0631 \u0628\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0635\u062f\u0647\u0627<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Al-Ashbaah Wan-Nazair, Ibn Nujaim, 23\/1, Darul Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, 1419 H. Al-Qawaidul Fiqhiyyah, Abdullah Bin Juday, Page 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 07388 &nbsp; Answered by: Mufti Syed Johir Miah &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; What\u2019s the ruling of photoshop? &nbsp; &nbsp; In the name of Allah,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32291,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32220\/revisions\/32291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}