Pictures of these leaders are seen all over the place, are they to be worshiped? Why is this allowed?
2006-08-02 08:47:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good questions. Som muslims (the salafi, which are the ones who follow the EXACT teachings of the prophet Mohamed peace be upon him and his companions) believe that drawing pictures of anything that has life is forbidden. They are also forbidden because this is a kind of trying to match the creation of Allaah.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=39806&ln=eng&txt=drawing%20pictures
Ofcourse, there are exceptions, such as ID or pictures of wanted criminals, or parts of the body.
Others state that that is only for 3 dimensional things, like statues.
sadly, there is no true islamic country in the world today as they do not follow shariah completely, but rather part of it or none of it.
I hope that answers your question.
2006-08-02 08:58:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Muhammad is dead so it doesn't matter. To keep him as a mystic, a legend, his image cannot be worshipped. What is involved is something called "Cult of Personality", or the worship of a leader almost as a god. Stalin, brutal as he was, had this cult of personality; so did Mao. The common element of all this is huge images of the leader on sides of buildings, large roadside tapestries, banners, billboards, everywhere. It puts the presence of the leader in front of the masses all the time, every day. Every office has an official portrait of the leader looking down from the walls.
The Muslim leaders pursue the same thing, this fascist Cult of Personality. You will see their portraits everywhere. This is part of the making the leader larger than life, to be esteemed and held in awe by the common man.
2006-08-02 16:13:16 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you have confused the use of images of political figures, who are not to be worshipped, with the prohibition in the Hadith against creating images of the Prophets.
The Quran has no specific or explicit ban on images of Allah or the Prophets.
However, the Koran does say: "[Allah is] the originator of the heavens and the earth... [there is] nothing like a likeness of Him" (chapter 42, verse 11). This is taken by Muslims to mean that Allah cannot be captured in an image by human hand, such is his beauty and grandeur. To attempt such a thing is seen as an insult to Allah.
The same is believed to apply to Muhammad. Chapter 21, verses 52-54 of the Koran read: "[Abraham] said to his father and his people: 'What are these images to whose worship you cleave?' They said: 'We found our fathers worshipping them.' He said: 'Certainly you have been, you and your fathers, in manifest error.'"
From this arises the Muslim belief that images can give rise to idolatry - that is to say an image, rather than the divine being it symbolises, can become the object of worship and veneration.
However, the Hadith (the stories of the words and actions of Muhammad and his Companions), explicitly prohibits images of Allah, Muhammad and all the major prophets of the Christian and Jewish traditions.
More widely, Islamic tradition has discouraged the figurative depiction of living creatures, especially human beings. Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative.
And I could ask the same question regarding the proliferation of images of U.S. politicians and celebrities not only in the U.S. but around the world. Why are these images "seen all over the place"? Are these people to be worshipped?
2006-08-02 16:00:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello
They are not Holy and great like him
Also pictures of Muslim leaders is wrong in Islam to be seen all over the place
2006-08-02 15:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by BeHappy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Islam says to not worship relics, statues, pics, graves, or famous people. If you are thinking of Ayatollah of Iran, well he and his people are Shiites. Shiites worship pics of everything from Muhammad to his grandchildren Hassan and Hussein. They are really not muslims. The Sunnis except salafis wahhabis ismailis druzds ahmaddis qadianis bahai etc. are true muslims.
2006-08-02 19:29:37 · answer #5 · answered by Suliman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have two things in islam:sunnat and bed`at ,sunnat is allowed by prophet(peace be upon him) and others are bed`at and not allowed that someone creates it for arriving to his personal end and this one perhaps (someone does it but doesn`t know that it is bid`at and this isn`t out of islam)out of islam.
I offer you read quran, there is the answer of your al questions in religion and view if be read good.You can read the translatin by a famous muslim because they don`t change it`s definition and meaning.
2006-08-03 17:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by yaser k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!
The pics of leaders aren't worshipped in any way-are pres.bush's pics Worshipped? Pres bush is a leader should his pic be worshipped?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1667846/posts
2006-08-02 15:55:39 · answer #7 · answered by Peace 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point.
The way I understand it is that Islam forbids the portraying of any living being, even animals.
So what is the deal with the portraits of Presidents, etc. of Muslim countries?
2006-08-02 15:54:35 · answer #8 · answered by Hi y´all ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the reason why Mohammed's pictures are not drawn is not that ,Muslims don't draw him because they don't know how he looked like ,and that is some kind of showing respect.
2006-08-02 18:21:19 · answer #9 · answered by nicky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any one who shows a picture of the one and last prophet has blasplamed the Lord Allah his place is the hell fire
2006-08-02 15:52:13 · answer #10 · answered by Asad Hassan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋