Dought & clear, - After becoming Muslim,should she ask those who were her friends in the past to remove pictures of her that they have on Network?.

A woman became Muslim and her previous non-Muslim friends (including
men) have many photos of her on Facebook. The photos are from before
she became Muslim and when she was around 15-16.
Does she need to contactall the 'owners' of the photos and explain
that she became Muslim and ask them to take the photos down? Or is it
part of what is forgiven from jahiliyah?
If she needs to try and have them taken down, should she also request
it for certain photos posted by men many years ago. If she asks them
to remove the photo, they will then revisit the photo and seeher
without hijab/jilbab..and she doesn't think that they look at those
photos anymore.
Praise be to Allah.
Firstly:
You should understand that Islam erases everything that came before it
of sins and thatrepentance erases that which came before it.
Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Say to those who have disbelieved, if they cease(from disbelief)
their past will be forgiven"
[al-Anfaal 8:38].
Ibn Katheer (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Allah, may He be exalted,says to His Prophet (blessings and peace of
Allah be upon him): Tell those who have disbelieved that if they give
up what they are following of disbelief, dissent and stubbornness, and
they enter Islam, obey Allah and repent, He will forgive them what is
in the past, i.e., their disbelief, sins and mistakes. End quote.
Tafseer Ibn Katheer, 4/48
Al-Bukhaari (6921) and Muslim (120) narrated that Ibn Mas'ood (may
Allah be pleased with him) said: A man said: O Messenger of Allaah,
will we be held accountable for what we did during the Jaahiliyyah? He
said: "Whoever does good deeds in Islam will not be held accountable
for what he did during the Jaahiliyyah, but whoeverdoes evil in Islam
will be held accountable for the former and the latter."
An-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:What is meant by doing
good here is entering Islam both outwardly and inwardly and becoming a
Muslim in the true sense. The one who does that will be forgiven for
what he didpreviously when he was a disbeliever, according to the text
of the Holy Qur'an and the saheeh hadeeth, "Islam erases that which
came before it" (narrated by Muslim, 121), as well as according to the
consensus of the Muslims. End quote.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Just as Islam erases whatcame before it, repentance also erases what
came before it. Endquote.
Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 22/12
Secondly:
The one who becomes Muslim or repents from sin is only required to set
straight the consequences of previous actions that he is able to set
straight. With regard to these old pictures, the person in them will
not be brought to account for them now, in sha Allah, so long as she
has given up that haraam action. Rather all she has to do is remove
whatever she is able to remove herself.As for contacting those who
were her friends before she became Muslim and asking them to remove
the pictures, that depends on whatever will best serve the purpose and
what she thinks is most likely to be the case. If she knows that any
of them would respond to that request and respect her privacy, then
she may ask them to do that. As for those who she thinkswill most
likely not respect it or may become more stubborn or more interested
in her pictures, she should not ask them for that.
If she thinks it most likely – according to what she knows about them
– that they will not care about her pictures after she has left them,
and they will not pay any attention to them, then it is better for her
to keep quiet and let them forget about her.

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