Benefit:
“A lot of of the people say, ‘Tasweer is good for dawah’, akhi look at the dawah of Shaikh Muqbil, it’s a clear proof there is no need for tasweer in dawah. Look at the dawah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ it spread without the use of this tasweer. (And the Dawah of) Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali, and they were in the very center of polytheists amongst a people that all they knew was misguidance, idol worshipping, and shirk, so if tasweer was from this religion and from that which is a necessity for it, Allah would have sent a prophet calling his people with tasweer.
Even the Companions of the Messenger of Allahﷺ, if this tasweer was from the deen they would have made pictures of the Prophet ﷺ and perhaps written underneath it a hadith or some words and spread that to call the people to Islam. However, this tasweer was never from the ways of calling to Allah. It is not from the religion to begin with, this attaching the people to these images of tasweer.
How many of our scholars, up until today, their statements are known and lasting with us, and their methodology has been preserved and people are still debating over their statements and trying to understand their jurisprudence and not one of them had some channel broadcasting their images. So why then do we now say that there is a need for this tasweer.!?”
Did Allah command you to make images of yourselves in order to call the people to Islam? No. He did not oh my brother. Allah has only commanded you to call the people,
ادْعُ إِلِى سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَالْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ وَجَادِلْهُم بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ
that which translates as: “Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. [Nahl:125]
It reaches who it reaches. You are not charged with making sure Islam reaches to every corner of the world. If you have the ability to go to these remote places and give them dawah then go. But their guidance is not upon you so why are you falling into this sin of tasweer when the people of knowledge say that this tasweer is not permissible in totality and this is the position of the majority of the scholars of our time. Yet you find some who say, ‘no it is permissible’ and this position has been refuted for it is falsehood and it is rejected. And Allah’s aid is sought.”
Answered by: Shaikh Abu Abdillah Muhammad Ba Jamaal (May Allah preserve him)
Source: https://t.me/OfficialChannelShaykhBaajammaal/5
Translated by: Abu Yusuf Bilal ibn Howard Robinson