Islam bans all imagery including
* Listening to music or watching television
* Listening to radio
* Photographs or drawings of human beings or other living things which contain a soul
* Praying at tombs (praying at Mohammed's tomb, is also considered "shirk (polytheism)")
* Invoking any prophet, Sufi saint, or angel in prayer, other than God alone
* Following or strictly adhering (taqlid) to one of the four madhabs of Islamic jurisprudence.
* Celebrating annual feasts for the Mohammed or Sufi saints.
* Wearing charms, and believing in their healing power
* Innovation in matters of religion (e.g. new methods of worship) - Bid‘ah
The Hindus have hundreds of statues each attempting to explain a facet of GOD.
If GOD is beyond imagination then do we not need statues in vast unimaginable numbers?
This is what we see in India.
2006-12-21
08:58:09
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