smile, allhamdulillah, it is quite funny to see the change of tone in your responses after the statements of the ijazza scholars were presented to you.
yes because that falls under necessity. I did mention it, maybe not dircelty but certainly indirectly, please refer to page 1.
that is only one of the opinions of scholars and the statements of early scholars do not mention the reason: they flatly said that it is not permissible except some of the shafi’is who regard it as makrooh. khayr, no one denies the difference of opinion among the scholars and I clearly mentioned it; however, the jamhour’s view is that it is not permissible regardless of whether you are missing an obligation or not
yes, allhamdulillah - whoever disagrees need to check his imaan.
see, here you are contradicting yourself - taking the balanced position or less strict position. How does drawing an image comes under the heading of using smileys? First, none of use drew these and secondly, it is half drawn - missing its entire body. And we just agreed upon the fact that half completed images (missing limbs) do not come under prohibited category. Let us not be extreme and be balanced!
bro, I am glad that you have chosen a safe side - the Messenger of Allah (sal-allahu alayhi wa sallam) has warned us that grey area would eventually make one to fall into haraam. and like the saying goes: it is better be safe then be sorry later.
and Allah knows best