About the pictures

Maryam’s Musalla sends readers here from its copyright page. This page explains two things you will notice in its pictures.

Why the people are drawn without faces

The people in our books have no eyes, nose or mouth. You see them from behind, from the side, or a little way off, and you read how they feel from the way they stand, bend and hold each other.

Scholars have long differed about drawing people. Many allow it, especially to teach children. Many others are cautious about it, and accept a picture of a person when the face is left out. Drawing without faces is acceptable to both, so the book can sit on the shelf of a Muslim home whichever scholars that family follows.

It is a choice we made for these books. It is not a ruling, and not a judgement on books that draw faces; many of those are very good.

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, the other prophets and the Companions are never drawn in our books, in any form.

What the pictures show of salah, and what they leave out

The pictures show the steps of salah as all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) agree on them. Some details, such as where the hands rest or how the feet are placed when sitting, are not shown, because the schools describe them a little differently. When Mama and Maryam sit during salah, their clothes cover their feet.

Follow the school or the scholar your family follows.

Who checks the book

Before the book is published, qualified scholars review its Arabic, its steps of salah and the hadith in the note at the end.

How the pictures are made

The illustrations were made by the author with AI image tools and finished by hand. The pictures are checked so that none of them shows a face; an image that comes out with one is thrown away, never kept or edited into the book.

Last updated October 2026. Questions: hello@jameely.com