severely punished people on the Day of Resurrection, for he is a wrongdoer who presumes to imitate the acts of Allah—acts that no one but Him can perform. Indeed, there is nothing comparable to Him, neither in His Essence, nor in His Attributes, nor in His Actions. Glorified and Exalted is He *.
This was cited in al-Kawakib al-Darari (vol. 65/82/2).
I say: there is no difference, as far as the prohibition is concerned, between hand-drawn images, mechanically produced images, and photographic images. To claim a distinction is nothing but modern rigidity and superficial literalism, as I have explained in my book Adab al-Zifaf (pp. 106–116, 2nd ed.).
6 – Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Bajali reported that he heard the Prophet ﷺ five days before his death saying:
“I had among you brothers and friends, and I declare my disavowal before Allah (1) that …”