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Friday, October 29, 2010

Jum'ah Journal--Pictures of the prophet SAWS

I am sure you have come across this "chain-letter" on FB or other places on the IN and sometimes you want to support but not always.
As for the pictures of the prophet, I am not sure what would be the purpose. the pictures were first seen (I dont know how old) or paintings or drawings of some kind in Iranian writings, showing the prophet on the Burraq. I do not know who drew those and why and of course Ulama must have objected but that remains a fact and I have personally seen them.
It is 'prohibited' to draw him or dramatize his life or person of him etc. and that was his own teaching during life (for obvious reasons) and we as Muslims who love the prophet SAWS must respect his wishes. Inspite of that a movie was made (I enjoyed it) about the 'messenger' in which the 'prophet' did not appear on the screen. However our friend Mustafa Akkad (May his soul rest in peace) was allowed to produce it, by Al-Azhar.
If the drawing is not for mockery and is done by non-Muslim he/she is not prohibited as we Muslims are. It is not 'offensive' to us but is considered 'disrespectful' at most.
My own thinking has been that we as Muslims should have made objections for all the movies made in Hollywood about Jesus Christ PBUH or Moses PBUH. The Christians did not object even though they consider him son of God or even God because they did not consider such an act as disrespectful to the person. I have enjoyed some of them, I must say even though I think it is 'disrespectful' to picturize such exalted personalities.


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And what about adding some more pics? No offence, blog is really great. But according to the scientists people acquire info much more efficient when they see certain helpful pics.

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bsc said...

The Pictures of such persons are product of people's imagination. They are not real anyway.
It is the reverence that we have in our hearts about Moses Jesus Muhammad Peace be upon them all what prevents us from doing that. As for knowledge about these personalities, yes I agree you get more through 'pictures' but we do not NEED that kind of knowledge about these kind of personalities

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