Making pictures on walls and cloth is supposed to be makrooh...

Making pictures on walls and cloth is supposed to be makrooh and is held prohibited by some. One should be careful that no gilt-edging is done in the house and no pictures should be made, even that of a tree and especially of a full and perfect human form. If such a type of picture exists, it should be destroyed i.e. rubbed off or one of the parts of the body should be struck off, like the eye or the hand.

In a reliable tradition quoted from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) that the angel Jibrael has said that the band of angels do not enter that house which has a dog or an idol or that (uncleaned) utensil in which people urinate. In another reliable tradition it is stated that a person who makes idols will, on the Day of Judgement, be asked to give life to those idols. And when he will be unable to bestow life to the idols, then punishment will descend on him.

A tradition states that some people asked Imam Ja'far-e-Sadiq (a.s.) his opinion about pictures carved on floors or printed on household linen used for spreading on the floor. The Imam (a.s.) said it did not matter as long as the faces of the forms were mutilated. A tradition from Imam Moosa Kazim (a.s.) states that one should not pray in that house which has pictures hung in front of one.

In case of no alternative, one should either cut the photo or turn it on the wrong side and then only one should pray. In another tradition people asked him (a.s.) about making pictures of trees, sun, moon etc. He (a.s.) said it did not matter if we drew pictures of lifeless objects. 4.

Etiquette of the floor of the house and of bed-making: According to Imam Moosa Kazim (a.s.), there are three sources of beautification: a) a four-footed animal with elegant gait b) a well-behaved slave c) a beautiful floor Imam Ja'far-e-Sadiq (a.s.) has stated that a man needs a bed for himself, his wife and his guest; and more than that is the property of shaitan.

In a reliable tradition it is stated that Imam Reza (a.s.) used to seat himself on Boria (dried grass mat) during summers and on a blanket in winters. He used to wear rough clothes at home and when he used to go outside he used to wear better clothes and make himself presentable for the sake of people.

It is stated in a reliable tradition that when Hazrat Ali (a.s.) married Hazrat Fatima Zehra (a.s.), he possessed only a cloak to cover himself, a bedding of goat skin and pillow of the same skin filled with the date-tree peelings.