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Assalamu Alaikum:

It is believed by most scholars that Allah did not want Muslims to follow the way of other religions: praying to statues, worshipping pictures of saints or religious relics/artifacts, etc....

ops154 wrote: salman wrote: You don't read any books on Islam and then you say that I am making false statements. Ask any Muslim scholar or Imam regarding this topic ( if Allah wills ) and insha Allah you will get to know i am telling truth or lie. You think I am making all false statements. Allah knows that i am telling truth or lie. I fear Allah.   First off, If you were to of read my post you will see the that I said I was not muslim and that is why I asked. I didn't say you make false statements about islam, actually you don't usually post about islam it's usually about bad mouthing the US. From those statements I said you were wrong, I have said nothing about you being wrong when you speak about islam. I know as much about Islam as you know about the US, which is nothing. Personnely I don't don't really believe in any god as I can see religion is a way to keep the masses down to a managable force, whether it's Budda, Christ, Allah, etc. Although it seems like it's true I still don't understand it, why no drawings? Please take the time to read this post before responding, if that's not to much to ask.

ops, if you want to know why Islam is a true religion and why all the other religions are false, please visit Islamic sites and gain knowledge about Islam ( if Allah wills ). insha Allah then you will get to know why Islam is perfect, unique and true religion.

Allah has mentioned in the Qur'an ' If any one follows any other religion other than Islam then he is among the losers '.

As' Salaamu Alaikum,

I'm not a scholar nor am I going to comment on the saying sof hadith as I understand there are authentic and non-authentic hadith, so that alone tells me that not always how one thing is interpreted is always correct in light of this. Obviously one of the members used the Sahih Bukhari hadith which for most is considered "authentic" I do not know for sure. I too have also heard that images especially of various objects were forbidden.

My take on this is Allahu Alim (God knows) God knows the intentions of the painters. He knows the intentions of those who use calligraphy in the forms of of images (i.e such as humans) as you all can see my picture. I'm not going to say in this matter whther its a sin or not because I don't have enough knowledge on this matter. As I understand it that even the subject of images is debatable and is not universally accepted by all Muslims. It's possible as a Muslim to have concern of certain things in Islam that one finds questionable, even if it is not universally accepted so its hard to not stay within one frame of mind in these types of matters.

I for one as a human being don't believe some artist paint portraits for the purpose of worship for Muslims to use that argumenet is weak. There are many artist who paint because they want to describe the beauty of nature. As any clear thinking person knows that the intention of some art is to capture the beauty. If such an act was a sin why are some people good at creating art? For the Pagan Quraysh they made art of course, but they too also revered their created images. perhpas we may think at the given time of these tribes that having images weren't acceptable since these individuals (The Quraysh) worshipped these images alongside God.

Salman, as your brother in Islam please check yourself in judging others if you want to spread the message of Islam you have to be courteous in spite of someone who may differ on certain topics within Islam. Our repsonse to adversity shouldn't be judgement but more critical input on why it is the way it is in our faith.