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2006-11-04 22:08:32 · 11 answers · asked by . 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How does anyone know what he looks like? Allah(swt) knows best.
2006-11-04 23:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by IamMuslimah 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Salam,
Interesting question. Everybody will reply "may be", "might be", "most surely" but no one can give an exact reply as no one has paint or photograph jesus when he was around.
People paint jesus white, with coloured eyes, blond hairs, supposedly to give him a great beauty, attributes which mostly everybody see as beauty. Guess what would happened if they painted Jesus black. This would have put an end to slavery and give black people more pride than the white, as Jesus was of their race.
Unfortunately we are living in a racist world and everybody is fond of colouring their god their way without real proof. And why is colour important anyway? What he taught, his works, and good deeds are of utmost importance not the colour of his skin.
2006-11-04 22:25:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As far as I know there are not text in the Quran or hadeeth that describe his features. I don't believe so in the Bible either. But considering he was from the middle east I would say he was light to dark brown like most people of this region. His hair was probably black as most people here. As for his eyes I have no clue. I don't have any proof, I am basing my conclusion on the other people from the same region that he lived in.
2006-11-05 04:29:02 · answer #3 · answered by Umm Ali 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church commissioned many, often homosexual, artists to paint images of Jesus, they typically used male prostitutes as models in those days so what you are really looking at is an idealised image based on a rent boy of the day picked up from the streets of Florence, Venice or Rome or wherever.
It's perfectly true so don't get upset with me over it for being blunt, that is how artists studios worked in those days, especially so throughout the Renaissance period.
BA (Hons) Art History
(There was a previous similar question to yours only minutes ago, the above is the answer I gave. )
2006-11-04 22:10:28 · answer #4 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
he was palestinian, so he looked like a palestinian. the famous paintings from europe look like europeans because that was the world that they were painted in, there was no concept of historical accuracy 500 years ago, even the backgrounds of the biblical paintings show european landscapes, not middle eastern landscapes. the question is, now that our concepts of accuracy are more sophisticated, why don't we depict jesus in a more accurate way? why would it be shocking to see a black haired middle eastern jesus? i think it would be a healthy change.
2006-11-04 22:19:37 · answer #5 · answered by domangelo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sahih Muslim, Book 001, Number 0323:
"It is narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Umar that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I found myself one night near the Ka'bah, and I saw a man with wheat complexion amongst the fair-complexioned men that you ever saw. He had a lock of hair the most beautiful of the locks that you ever saw. He had combed it. Water was trickling out of them. He was leaning on two men, or on the shoulders of two men, and he was circumscribing the Ka'bah. I asked, What is he? It was said: He is al-Masih son of Mary. Then I saw another person, stout and having too much curly hair, and blind in his right eye as if it was a full swollen grape. I asked Who is he? It was said: He is al-Masih al-Dajjal."
And also Number 0324 and 0325
2006-11-05 00:52:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many Israelites now are white and most of them look Caucasian. So yes Jesus might of have blue eyes and maybe light brown hair.
2006-11-04 22:16:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
My belief is that he was a dark-haired, olive-skinned Jewish guy. Not too stocky but not too thin either. I also believe that like Jewish males of today, he was heavily bearded and probably pretty hirsute. I don't believe he was short but I also don't believe he was overly tall either. And I also think he had pretty curly hair and probably slightly balding.
2006-11-04 22:25:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don't know what he looked like, the bible doesn't describe him. and the paintings were painted by people who thought Jesus looked like how they painted him.
2006-11-04 22:24:17 · answer #9 · answered by A follower of Christ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jews are white som obviously Jesus was white
2006-11-04 22:11:42 · answer #10 · answered by Chuck Norris 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋