Questioner: I want to take photographs for my wedding photographs.
Huzoor (rh): You don’t have?
Questioner: No.
Huzoor (rh): Who told you?
Questioner: A woman and a girl.
Huzoor (rh): Are you the same boy who referred to some papers, newspapers and magazines, in which Hocus Pocus was published? Who are you? The same boy? Yes. You must have read it in the same papers. Yes.
Questioner: My mom told that.
Huzoor (rh): Your mom told all that? Tell me, who are you? Who are your parents? Do I know them?
Questioner: My mom told that.
Huzoor (rh): Tell me. Who are your parents? Just thinking. What? I saw you with them last. Oh, yes, yes, I saw you with them last. I am going to talk to them. I am going to stop them telling you all this fib.
Questioner: A woman, they go to Khana Kaba and they wanted to take photographs. But they didn’t allow them to take the photographs.
Huzoor (rh): I know the problem, yes. You are quite right there. In that sense, because the Wahhabis who rule the area where Khana Kaba is situated, they don’t believe in pictures. Only when they think pictures taken for publishing in the newspaper, they permit it.
But in principle, they don’t believe in taking photos and things. So the police, the shurti there, they might have done that. But if your friend had offered them some riyals, I think they would be pleased. That’s what happens. The next time you meet them, you tell them. Take a few extra riyals if you want to take photographs. All over the world, the photo of Kaba is published. And when the ceremony of changing the cloth is held, that also is published. But on these things, there is such contradiction in their behaviour and their belief.
