Do Muslims possess an appreciation of the beauty of the human form?

Question

No, not another bash the Muslims question, I'm just curious. What do you see when you happen to see fine art nudes such as the statues of David or Venus: beauty or pornography?

Answer 1

It depends on the person. Of Course we all appreciate beauty!

But we have different approaches: For example As a Christian I use to paint human forms and I did win many awards for my painting. The reason why I choose to do this was because I feel than in a way inevitably I would tried to make my paintings perfect and reaalistic, and try to mimic the creation of God. Since I am not GOD I should not even temp to Mimic God, not even through art. What he creates is perfect and should not be imitated.But again that is my opinion!

After I became a Muslim I stopped painting them (human animals all together) and making sculptures as well. I appreciate art, that has not stopped, but I prefer not to make human forms. I paint flowers and fruits :) Nothing alive! I try not to make them look perfect or like the real thing, I always leave details :)

Answer 2

we do appreciate beauty you know. I mean, first of, as u may know nude pictures, sculptures etc is unacceptable for us to view and create. But it is not because we find the human form repulsive. Infact, we believe that since God created us in absolute perfection, we are supposed to be thankful for this. Okay, most of us dont actually do this, but as you may know for us there is a prayer for everything, and when looking into the mirror we read a DUA, the meaning of which is 'Oh Allah you have made my physical constitution good, so make my (inner)disposition good to and keep my face safe from hell fire. Praise be to Allah who has fashioned me and made me proportionate and honored my face and made me of the muslims'

that just an example of the fact that we as muslims do appreciate the human form

Answer 3

My (pitifully scant) understanding of Islam is that to attempt to reproduce creation by copying a 'God-created' form such as a beast, flower etc. is considered wrong. Therefore your question could be considered similar to asking a Jew or inded a Muslim, if they like bacon??
Islamic art is 'confined' to forms that do not mimic creation. If we learned about other peoples' faith, perhaps this question would not have arisen?

Answer 4

sura 8:39 make conflict on them till idolatry is not extra and allah's faith reigns ultimate ;;sura 2:161 allah curse non-muslims 4:89 if a muslim turns againest islam kill him ;;; 9:seventy 3 ;;o;; prophet! make conflict on the unbelievers 9:5 kill the non-believers the place ever you hit upon them 9:123 slay the unbelievers; those are in basic terms some suras that allah tells approximately what he thinks of non-muslims

Answer 5

Yes, a normal human seeing a nuke status will think about sex. A practise monk who will stop immediately during his seeing , he might turn off the sight or thinking that is a burning corpse same as it. Then he can face to it and normally.

Answer 6

of course!!

Allah says
“We have honored the children of Adam, carried them on the land and the sea, given them pure sustenance and exalted them above most of My creatures. (17:70)”

statues are statues!! nothing "sexualy" desirable about them.
but pornography is a sin.

Answer 7

personally i see beauty ............. still having problems digesting it as righteous

at least i speak honestly

EDIT: excellent question by the way ........... and of course - my vision of beauty stands within the borders of taste - pornography has nothing to do with it

Answer 8

Of course we appreciate beauty be it in art of any kind or in life itself.

Answer 9

hehe Keyser

sum time i feel pity for u

how hard will u push ur religion against muslims?

i here challenege u to talk abt faith
[e-mail] add me at yahoo messenger

Answer 10

interesting question i cant wait to see the answers xx