{"id":22879,"date":"2021-10-13T22:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T22:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=22879"},"modified":"2021-10-13T22:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T22:52:29","slug":"what-should-we-do-regarding-pictures-of-our-groceries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/what-should-we-do-regarding-pictures-of-our-groceries\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should We Do Regarding Pictures of Our Groceries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05478<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Alimah Safiyya-Maryam Ahmed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It is narrated by Abu Talha (may Allah be pleased be with him) that The Prophet (\ufdfa) said, \u201cAngels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or there are pictures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">My question is we buy all groceries and almost every package comes with a human picture on it and also we have newspapers where we have pictures so how can we handle this situation where it&#8217;s not possible to cover every single object.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Allah Azzawajjal states in the Qur\u2019an, \u201cOn no soul does Allah place a burden greater than it can bear\u201d [2:286]. This key principle in the Qur\u2019an teaches us about a beautiful principle in the Deen- we are charged to try our best within our capacity, and whatever is beyond our control or causes extreme difficulty to bring dispensation from Allah Al-Rahman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Therefore, based on this and other principles in Fiqh such as <em>\u201cDifficulty brings about ease\u201d, \u201cWhen a matter becomes difficult it widens in scope\u201d, <\/em>and<em> \u201cExtreme necessity makes permissible the unlawful\u201d<\/em> we say that a person should try their best to avoid images in the home but where it is difficult to avoid such as in groceries etc. we utilise these aforementioned principles to say they would be allowed. A person should still endeavour to discard the packaging with images as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Alimah Safiyya Maryam Ahmed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0634\u0642\u0629 \u062a\u062c\u0644\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0631<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0631 \u0627\u0630\u0627 \u0636\u0627\u0642 \u0627\u062a\u0633\u0639<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0636\u0631\u0648\u0631\u0627\u062a \u062a\u0628\u064a\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0638\u0648\u0631\u0627\u062a (\u0627\u0644\u0642\u0648\u0627\u0639\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0642\u0647\u064a\u0629 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u062c\u0632, \u0635\u0641\u062d\u0629 \u0664\u0660-\u0664\u0664)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 05478 &nbsp; Answered by: Alimah Safiyya-Maryam Ahmed &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; It is narrated by Abu Talha (may Allah be pleased be with him)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22930,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22879\/revisions\/22930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}