Currently im joining youtube adsense program. I uploded a video and then when my video is being viewed, the ads appear next to it.
I hear that pictures is not allowed in islam. And my video is collection of picture (slideshow) that has a text on it. mostly the picture of anime.
How about my revenue. is it haram ?
Praise
be to Allah
Firstly:
If you take a collection of cartoon images, then comment on
them with written text, then put all of that together in a video clip in
order to upload it to YouTube, there is no sin on you, in sha Allah, but
that depends on the following conditions:
1.
that the uploaded clips do not contain any objectionable
material, such as music, images that provoke desire, or false, deviant
beliefs, and the like;
2.
the ads that accompany your clip should not promote
haraam products such as riba-based banks, permissive websites, music
channels, haraam movies, and so on.
If most of the ads that accompany your clips are permissible
ads, then we hope that there will be no sin on you for making money from
these ads. But if that is not the case, then you have to stop offering this
service, because then you will be participating in spreading and promoting
sin. Please see the answer to question no. 101806.
Secondly:
What is required of the Muslim is that he should be a
constructive member of his society and his ummah, and his aim should be to
offer that which will benefit them in both spiritual and worldly terms, as
well as earn him money, without ignoring the sublime goals of serving his
religion and his ummah.
This work that you are interested in, of collecting cartoon
images known as anime, only adds to idle pursuits, of which the Muslim ummah
has had more than enough and with which they have filled their minds. If you
had done this job in a proper manner and tried to spread useful information
and Islamic concepts via this channel, and you had chosen well in selecting
suitable comments for these pictures, and sought help in making sure that
this channel adheres to Islamic guidelines from some seekers of Islamic
knowledge who have knowledge of Islamic rulings and are also aware of the
things that are contrary to Islamic teachings and the reprehensible
behaviour reflected in such films, to which many people do not pay
attention, this would have been better for you and more beneficial, and you
would thus have been playing a role in protecting Muslim children from other
films that reflect deviant behaviour and beliefs.
And Allah knows best.
