Painting and Sculpture: Is Teaching Doll and Animal Sculpture in Schools Permissible?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Painting and Sculpture: Is Teaching Doll and Animal Sculpture in Schools Permissible?

English:

Question #1216:

In the new curriculum, there is a subject called self-reliance. Part of the subject deals with sculpture. The teachers ask the students to make dolls of rabbits, dogs, and the like from cloth or other items. What is the ruling in this matter? What is the ruling on the teachers’ instructions in this regard? And to what extent does the completion in full-size of these dolls affect the ruling?

Answer #1216:

There is no problem in making a statue or ordering another person to do so.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Painting and Sculpture