Keeping pictures at home for blessing

Question

(1) Is it permissible or not to keep pictures of the noble ʿulama and the pious elders of the religion in a house and the like for blessing (baraka) and beauty? (2) If a person has his photograph made and keeps it with him or sends it somewhere, is that permissible or not? (3) Nowadays pictures of the noble ʿulama appear in newspapers; for example, in the newspaper al-Jamʿiyya pictures appear of the respected Mawlana Ahmad Saʿid, the secretary of Jamiʿat ʿUlama-i Hind, of Mawlana ʿAtaʾullah Shah Bukhari and of…

Answer

(1) Keeping such pictures in the house for beauty, blessing and the like is haram in the Sharia. No blessing comes from it; rather, ill fortune comes, because the coming of the angels of mercy is stopped. (2) It is impermissible. (3)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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