Can I Sell Islamic Calligraphy Designs on a Site?

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel

Question

Can I sell Islamic calligraphy designs on a site like Shutterstock and generate multiple profits from Per Download of the item?

Answer

Yes, it is permissible to sell Islamic Calligraphy designs and charge for multiple downloads. You are selling something that you have produced and developed.

If one creates a digital image, it will come under the law of copyright. Many scholars have accepted the rights of copyright. As such Islamic reminders under the form of digital images, will be copyrighted to their developers and owners.

Also, you are allowed to generate a sale per download, too.

[Taqi Usmani, Fiqh al-Buyu’]

I pray this helps in your question.

[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.

He started his early education in UK. He went onto complete hifz of Qur’an in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.

He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.

He currently resides in UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.