{"id":22502,"date":"2026-07-01T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22502"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:44:12","slug":"council-of-islamic-ideology-declares-visual-depictions-of-prophets-religiously-impermissible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22502","title":{"rendered":"Council of Islamic Ideology Declares Visual Depictions of Prophets Religiously Impermissible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan&#8217;s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared that publishing visual depictions, portrayals or any imagery representing the Prophets or other sacred personalities is religiously impermissible under Islamic law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision was made during a meeting of the Council chaired by Allama Dr. Raghib Hussain Naeemi, where members discussed several issues related to national affairs, legal matters and public interest.<\/p>\n<p>According to the resolution adopted during the meeting, any visual representation, depiction or symbolic portrayal of the Prophets or other revered religious figures should be strictly avoided.<\/p>\n<p>The Council stated that refraining from such depictions is necessary to preserve the dignity, sanctity and revered status of these sacred personalities.<\/p>\n<p>It also urged the public, institutions and relevant stakeholders to avoid publishing or promoting such material in order to uphold religious respect and sanctity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared that publishing visual depictions, portrayals or any imagery representing the Prophets or other sacred personalities is religiously impermissible under Islamic law. The decision was made during a meeting of the Council chaired by Allama Dr. Raghib Hussain Naeemi, where members discussed several issues related to national affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[12662,6740,12657,12667,12664,12663,12666,62,12658,10539,12660,12665,12659,12661],"class_list":["post-22502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-allama-dr-raghib-hussain-naeemi","tag-cii","tag-council-of-islamic-ideology","tag-islamic-guidance","tag-islamic-law","tag-islamic-teachings","tag-national-news","tag-pakistan","tag-prophets","tag-religious-affairs","tag-religious-ruling","tag-religious-sanctity","tag-sacred-personalities","tag-visual-depictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22504,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502\/revisions\/22504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}