Q1007: What is your view on the art of sculpture and on trading the works of sculpture? What is the case of painting and drawing in general?

A: Sculpture for reasonable purposes, is not illegal; Painting or drawing will be legal and permissible if it does not include vulgar and nasty figures and does not encourage depravity and immorality.

Q1008: What is your view on miniatures which often include the covered figure of a woman? Is it permissible to trade such painting?

A: Miniature and other paintings which do not popularize depravity and moral corruption are legal and it is legal to trade them.

Q1009: What kind of punishment does it deserve to keep painting, pictures and movies which popularize immoralities, for the purpose of trading? What is the case of the money earned in this way?

A: If the punishment has not been specified by law, the person must suffer a discretionary punishment according to the Islamic laws, and anything earned through an illegal act is illegal, as anything which does not generate legal common profit is illegal; a tradition quoted from the Holy Prophet says, “When Allah renders something illegal, He also renders the profit earned through its trading illegal”.