BENEFIT 135: Digital images cannot be compared to a mirror

Shaykh al-Albaanee rahimahullah said: "...You were saying what is the difference between the reflection in the mirror and television or video? We say the difference is very much. We say to you now: stand in the mirror; come now and give me the image which you saw in the mirror. You are not able to do so. But, if it was given permanent form, it would become like a video and be forbidden. The harm comes from it having permanent form, not from that which has no permanence... " He also said: "... As for me, I am of those people who say that this differentiation between the picture made by hand (“make a picture”) and the picture made by camera (“take a picture”) is a contemporary literalist (dhaahiree) view----i.e., inflexible thinking which has become a trial for those who differentiate between the picture made by hand and that made by camera..."