✅Answer: In question 153 of the channel, which should definitely be referred to, the prohibition of making statues and drawing images of living beings was clarified from narrations, including:

أَبِی جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ إِنَّ الَّذِینَ یُؤْذُونَ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ هُمُ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ یُکَلَّفُونَ یَوْمَ الْقِیَامَةِ أَنْ یَنْفُخُوا فِیهَا الرُّوحَ

📚Al-Mahasin, Vol. 2, p. 616

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: 'Indeed, those who harm Allah and His Messenger' are the image-makers. On the Day of Resurrection, they will be tasked with breathing life into them.

And in 📚Al-Mahasin, Vol. 2, p. 616, Imam Sadiq said: 'Three people will be tormented on the Day of Resurrection: a person who narrates a false dream will be forced to tie a knot between two grains of barley and will not be able to tie a knot between them, and a person who makes an image will be tasked with breathing life into it and will not be able to breathe, and a person who listens to the words of a people while they dislike it, molten lead will be poured into his ears.'

✅In both the language and the narrations, 'timthal' means both making a statue and drawing an image with writing.

In the book Majma' al-Bahrain, Vol. 5, p. 470, it is stated:

'Mathtala lahu tamthilan': If he made an image of him with writing and other things. Meaning: Making an image of someone with writing and other things.

Also, pay attention to the following hadith which shows that 'timthal' is also used for images on a curtain:

سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ مُوسَی بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ عَنِ الْبَیْتِ یَکُونُ عَلَی بَابِهِ سِتْرٌ فِیهِ تَمَاثِیلُ أَ یُصَلَّی فِی ذَلِکَ الْبَیْتِ قَالَ لَا

📚Al-Mahasin, p. 617

Translation: Ali ibn Ja'far said: 'I asked Musa ibn Ja'far (peace be upon him) about a room on whose door there is a curtain with 'tamathil' (images) on it, 'Can one pray in that room?' He said: 'No.'

✅The question that arises today is whether creating an image of a living being with a mobile phone and a camera is also included in the prohibition or not?

✅Since these devices did not exist in the past and this type of image-making of living beings was not common, and on the other hand, the image of a living being is recorded and stored in the memory of the mobile phone and camera and can be transferred to paper, this matter is called a 'shubhah' (doubtful matter).

✅Pay attention to the ruling on 'shubhah' in the following narration, among others:

عن الصادق فی حدیث قال:فَإِنَّمَا الْأُمُورُ ثَلَاثَةٌ أَمْرٌ بَیِّنٌ رُشْدُهُ فَیُتَّبَعُ وَ أَمْرٌ بَیِّنٌ غَیُّهُ فَیُجْتَنَبُ وَ أَمْرٌ مُشْکِلٌ یُرَدُّ حُکْمُهُ إِلَی اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ إِلَی رَسُولِهِ وَ قَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ حَلَالٌ بَیِّنٌ وَ حَرَامٌ بَیِّنٌ وَ شُبُهَاتٌ تَتَرَدَّدُ بَیْنَ ذَلِکَ فَمَنْ تَرَکَ الشُّبُهَاتِ نَجَا مِنَ الْمُحَرَّمَاتِ وَ مَنْ أَخَذَ بِالشُّبُهَاتِ ارْتَکَبَ الْمُحَرَّمَاتِ وَ هَلَکَ مِنْ حَیْثُ لَا یَعْلَمُ

📚Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, p. 68

Translation: Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said in a hadith: 'Indeed, matters are of three types: a matter whose rightness and guidance are completely clear, which is to be followed, and a matter whose error is completely clear, which is to be avoided and abstained from, and a matter that is doubtful and difficult, whose ruling is to be referred to Allah Almighty and His Messenger.' And the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said: 'There is a clear lawful and a clear forbidden, and doubtful matters are in between them. So, whoever abandons the doubtful matters is saved from the forbidden things, and whoever acts on the doubtful matters commits forbidden things and is destroyed from where he does not know.'

✅Many hadiths have reached us about the necessity of avoiding doubtful matters, and it is considered a part of piety. In doubtful matters, without believing and giving a fatwa of prohibition, we are obligated to stop at it and abandon it so that we do not enter into the forbidden things of Allah without knowledge.

✅Avoiding doubtful matters is one of the differences between those who act on the texts of the narrations and those who follow mujtahids.

✅By avoiding a doubtful matter, we protect ourselves from the danger of entering into the forbidden things of Allah, and if it is somehow determined on the Day of Resurrection that the doubtful matter was lawful, the one who acted on the doubtful matter is still blamed:

✅Imam Hasan (peace be upon him) said:

وَ اعْلَمْ أَنَّ فِی حَلَالِهَا حِسَابٌ وَ فِی حَرَامِهَا عِقَابٌ وَ فِی الشُّبُهَاتِ عِتَابٌ

Translation: 'Know that indeed, in the lawful of this world there is an accounting, and in its forbidden there is punishment, and in its doubtful there is reproach and blame.'

📚Bihar, Vol. 44, p. 138

✅Also, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said to Abu Dharr:

یَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِینَ الَّذِینَ یَتَّقُونَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنَ الشَّیْ ءِ الَّذِی لَا یُتَّقَی مِنْهُ خَوْفاً مِنَ الدُّخُولِ فِی الشُّبْهَةِ

'O Abu Dharr, indeed the pious are those who are mindful of Allah in something that is not avoided and (they avoid it) for fear of entering into a doubtful matter!'

📚Bihar, Vol. 74, p. 76