Engaging in the picture trade

Question

There is also this case: the framer keeps pictures with him, among which are pictures of both animate and inanimate things. One picks from them a picture of one’s liking and places an order for a frame. Here too the question is: may he keep a picture of an animate being in the shop or not?

Answer

Keeping such a picture in the shop for sale and trading in it is even more makruh than framing it.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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