emotions

assalamualaikum muslim friends

this topic is important so read carefully and try to understand.

Prophet Muhammad ( may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) never used to keep pictures of animate objects or of living things at home, and used to tear those pictures and throw them away.

a tradition says that on the day of judgement, the artists who used to draw the pictures of animated objects and living things in this world, they will be asked to give life to those pictures which they drew, and those artists will not be able to do so, then Allah will punish them for what they did in the world.

thus, keeping pictures of animate objects and of living things is a sin, and also drawing diagrams of animate objects and living things is a sin.

now a days, while chatting and communicating with people on net, a lot of emoticons are used, for example, smileys, to express the emotion of smile.

the thing i want to say is that even these emoticons are pictures of animate objects. we should not use them in our chat or communication with other people.

we can express our emotions by the wordings of our statement.

masha Allah since i joined this forum i have not used any emoticons

Allah knows best

Bismillah,

Subhanna Allah, Brother Salman.  Please don't be offended or take it personally if we do not comply with your request.  I had a dear friend whom I love follow this so that when she homeschooled her kids, she would not put a smiley face on their papers for this reason you have stated.  Years later, I went to visit and they were watching popular pg rated movies.  Hmmm.

Many people take things literally as you and she, but I don't.  Sorry.  I like the picture of the horsey on my bathroom wall.  And you yourself must be aware that many, many Muslims don't agree with you.  Haven't you been to the homes where they have blown up, huge pictures of their kid's pictures on the wall?  And the homes of the families of martyrs have huge pictures in every room of their fallen loved one?

But you can have pictures of trees and lakes and none of kitties if you like.  We don't mind at all.