What advice to a Sunni can you provide for dealing with the fear of committing Shirk while studying graphic design in school, when it involves drawing and animating living things in their complete form, and switching the subject is not an option?
The Muslims who believes that there is no God, but Allah can never commit Shirk. Manufacturing idols is not permissible, but it can never make the sinners who believes in the Tawheed of Allah can never make him a Mushrik. Graphic design of animation is permissible and it does not resemble idol manufacturing. It is good to note that the Wahabi claims of allegation of Shirk are based on the misunderstanding the narration of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS). They mix between the meanings of the Arabic words, at that time with the different meanings of the same words in today’s time.
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