Is it permissible to scratch out an image seen in a public bathhouse?

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Al-Mughni

Book of the Wedding Feast

Book 37 · Issue 2 · Bab 1

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It is permissible to scratch out an image seen in a bathhouse. The justification is that the creation of such an image is a reprehensible act (*munkar*), thus permitting its alteration. Sufficiency is met by removing parts that remove it from the definition of a complete image, such as the head.