Where can I find a picture of Allah?

Question

Wouldn't someone have a picture or a sketch/painting of Allah? And why is it so "taboo" to show a picture of him? Just curious.

Answer 1

Actually, images of Allah does exists before Islam came into being. Allah is a tribal moon god, and pre-Islamic Arabs in what is now Saudi Arabia does revere him as one of their 360 deities (one for each day of their lunar year). Mohammad later ransacked the Kaaba, ridding the 359 other idols, and established Allah, his clan's favorite, as supreme above all. The original Allah idol shows him sitting on a throne with a prominent moon crescent in his chest. Mohammad later forbade to make an image of this deity.

Answer 2

In the Quran it doesn’t state what Allah is made of, however we do know that He appear to us as light. This image is best though of in the mind because such a light cannot be composed on a piece of paper. Unlike any other religion, in Islam we cannot draw the faces or even the body outline of any of the Prophets. This is because we don’t know what they look like and plus Allah has forbidden us to draw faces because Allah is the best of creators and we are making it out as if we can do better. This is why we don’t even have a picture of our Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) because it will be seen as disrespect...

Answer 3

Only true believers will be able to see Him after they are given the needed sense in the Paradise. This is considred from Islamic resources as the highest reward a human can get.

Answer 4

you won't because it's blasphemous.
In Islam worship and adoration should be confined to Allah. This allows all other attachments, obsessions and sources of inner compulsion and slavery to dissolve. Clearly, therefore, the more other things are honoured the more dilute does Islam Surrender to Allah become. That is why Islamic Art is mainly of caligraphic and geometrical and concerned with the patternsunderlying creation.

However, it is not explicitly forbidden in the Quran but in a Hadith, though it can easily be seen as compatible with Quranic teachings. On the other
hand obsessiveness with this or any other idea is also a form of idolatry.

Answer 5

Look who the pigs are now? I am not surprised Americans are just a bunch of ruthless animals who are uneducated, and believe every bone the media feeds them. Oh yea If you actually know how to read Arabic you would know a correct translation of the quran to know that it says to respect women. The bull crap that your precious radical leaders present to you is nothing more then a pile of unworthy scrap brought up by him to put down Islam. Case closed another win for Tariq.

Answer 6

Moses asked God (Allah) to let him see God. God told him you cannot see me. But Moses insisted 9 times. So God said to Moses: Look at that mountain. God exposed His light to the mountain and the mountain disintegrated into dust and Moses fell unconscious. When Moses woke, he said: I repent (in Arabic: astaghfirullah) and he realized that no human eyes can see God in this life. When human beings are raised again in the afterlife, those who go to Paradise will be given eyes that have the ability and permission to see God's face.

Until then, God says look all around you, at the creation of the heavens and the earth and you will see Me.

Answer 7

Because a picture being worshipped is the same as Idol worship. Paganism. Allah/God wants his/her followers to worship just the merciful, loving, justice dealing God. Allah/God doesn't want his/her followers to think "Hm, He/She's hot. Sure I'll worship him/her. Nice pic to ogle all day". Allah/God is spirit. Your relationship is what matters, not your physical looks. Same goes for his/her side.

Answer 8

Allah has no pictures because he has never been seen and never will until the gudgement day people who belived in him will be reword by seeing him.

Answer 9

I believe that God is ultimately formless, but that he does make himself known to us through various forms. Allah is the formless God, as He is without any forms. So no form or image can depict a formless being. The forms that are made of God can depict various things ABOUT God, but they cannot depict God entirely in his whole nature.

Answer 10

Allah is not in such a lowly human form,
Allah has no form,
He is the creator of the universe.
Allah is in your heart,
He is made of pure Blinding light,
To look at Allah, try looking at the afternoon sun with your naked eye for twenty minutes,
The sun is but a speck of light in front of The Light Of Allah.
Allah Creates, we are his creation.
He hasnt an Image,