asalamu alaykum brother.
what if the picture is like a passport or ID, is that forbidden too????
it is forbidden..Haraam
in case of Woman.....
that's depend on the purpose of using passport or ID.......
It says in
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (1/496): “A woman should not allow anyone to photograph her face whether for a passport or for any other purpose, because it (her face) is ‘awrah, and because the existence of pictures in passports and elsewhere is one of the causes of fitnah… unless that is the case of necessity.”
n something necessary that would make this action permissible ,like using ID, n passport which make 4 sake of
essential travel with company of one of her mahrams like doing Hajj or travel 4 treatment or makes hijrah from daar kufr (the abode of kufr). to dar islaam (the abode of Islam)... ..
Based on :
in cases of necessity, things that are ordinarily forbidden are permitted.
Whatever the case, it is not permissible for a woman to obey anyone who tells her to disobey Allaah and take off her hijab in the street or in a picture. It is not permissible for a woman to do that unless it has reached the point of necessity, such as being compelled by force to do that, or if these documents are essential for the necessities of life.
It is not permissible to go against Islamic rulings in this case unless one is certain of the necessity or thinks it most likely. It is not permissible to do that for the sake of non-essential travel, rather it should only be done in the case of necessity and for essential documents such as residence permits and ID cards.
in case of Man
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem(may Allaah have mercy on him) saied :
Ruling on making partial image in cases of necessity
if the image is originally incomplete, such as a head-and-shoulders picture, etc., and there is removed from the picture that without which is could not live, then it may be understood from the comments of many of the fuqahaa’ that this is permissible, especially if there is a need for such partial pictures. Whatever the case, one has to fear Allaah as much as one can, and avoid that which Allaah and His Messenger have forbidden.
“And whosoever fears Allaah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).
And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine”
[al-Talaaq 65:2-3 – interpretation of the meaning]
....end Quoted......
And Allaah knows best.