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Fatwa CenterSelling gold coins with figures
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You are kindly requested to answer the following questions received from one of my brothers in Islam: Are Muslims allowed to purchase and promote selling gold coins with figures?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
Photos and pictures of living beings - people or animals - should not be bought or preserved by Muslims under any circumstances. This is because keeping these pictures and photos might lead to glorifying them, especially if they are pictures of known and famous people like scientists, scholars, leaders, and even friends and relatives. In fact, temptation, which led to disbelief through this kind of pictures, is known through out history. The people of Prophet Noah 
went astray because of such pictures. Al Bukhari reported from Ibn Abbas that he said while interpreting the verse: {And said, ‘Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa’ or Yaghuth and Ya’uq and Nasr}. [Quran 71:23]
He said these names (of the idols) formerly belonged to some pious men of the people of Noah, and when they died Satan inspired their people to (prepare) and place idols at the places where they used to sit, and to call those idols by their names. The people did so, but the idols were not worshipped till those people (who initiated them) had died and the origin of the idols had become obscure, whereupon people began worshipping them. [Imam Al Bukhari].
Allah knows best.
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