Is Converting Pictures To Ghibli Art Using AI Permissible?

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Fatwa ID: 08321

 

 

Answered by: Maulana Nuski Cassim

 

Question:

 

Is converting pictures to Ghibli art using AIs permissible? Please provide a Fatwa as this has become widespread. Jazaakumullaahu Khairaa

 

 

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 

Answer:

 

Ghibli art is essentially the conversion of digital photos into anime-style portraits through means of AI technology.

 

In our view, digital images are permissible due to them being pixelated and shadowless.[1] This is the view of many contemporary scholars worldwide, though you will find a group of scholars who uphold the view of impermissibility be it digital or otherwise.[2]

 

With that said, we are of the opinion that converting pictures to Ghibli art using AI technology is permissible.

 

Note, however, that the pictures taken, and as a result converted, must be within the dictates and parameters of what is lawful.

 

 

References:

1.

وقال بعض السلف: إنما ينهى عما كان له ظل، ولا بأس بالصور التي ليس لها ظل.

 

أما الصور المجسَّمة على المخاد والوسائد والستائر والبسط والفرش والبطائن فلا مانع منها، لأنها ممتهنة. وتباح عند بعض العلماء اللوحات الزيتية ونقوش الحيطان، والرسوم على الورق، والصور المطبوعة أو المنسوجة في الملابس والستور، والمطرزات والموشّاة والمشغولة بأنواع الخيوط ونحو ذلك مما لا ظل له.

 

[الفقه الإسلامي وأدلته، ج. ٤، صفحة ٢٦٧٣، دار الفكر]

 

 

2.

إِنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ

 

[صحيح البخاري، رقم الحديث: ٥٩٥٠]

 

 

Only Allah knows best.

Written by Maulana Nuski Cassim

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

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