Is it permissible to use dummies in shop windows?
Dear Brother / Sister,
It is permissible to use those dummies if they do not have heads. According to our classical resources, it is not permissible to use dummies that have heads. It is permissible to use dummies of children and babies even if they have heads.
What is necessary to be careful about regarding the issue is that it is not appropriate to display these figures without any clothes and naked and to display them with distinct organs as if displaying the body of women. It is not haram when they are displayed with various clothes on.
In our view, since shop window dummies seem to be necessary in business life, it is not haram to use dummies that do not display obscenity and do not make people think about bad things in their imagination; it can only be makruh.
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