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layout: post
title: "Scale models of the two Sacred Mosques"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa al-Lajnah ad-Daimah no. 5576"
category: [fatwas]
hijri: Dhul-Hijjah 24, 1441
date: 2020/08/14
excerpt: It is not permissible to make scale models for Al-Haramayn Al-Sharifayn as they may contain pictures of the people in Al-Masjid Al-Haram while making Tawaf.
shaykhs: 
 - Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
 - Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq al-Afify
 - Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
 - Shaykh Abdullah ibn Qa'ud
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### Question:
I would like to know the ruling on making a model for Al-Haramayn Al-Sharifayn (the Two Sacred Mosques i.e. The Holy Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah) including the Sacred Ka`bah with the aim of selling them to the pilgrims and other Muslims who wish to buy them as souvenirs.

### Answer: 
It is not permissible to make scale models for Al-Haramayn Al-Sharifayn as they may contain pictures of the people in Al-Masjid Al-Haram (the Sacred Mosque in Makkah) while making Tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka`bah) or offering Salah (Prayer) and of the people in Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy (the Prophet’s Mosque in Al-Madinah), the reciters and others, also because the green dome appears in the picture of Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy which makes some people believe in domes and the people buried in them and this may lead to Al-Shirk-ul-Akbar (major form of associating others in worship with Allah) and other evils; may Allah save us from that.