Why is it considered blasphemy to have images of Mohammed?

Question

after all he's not God.

That makes sense. Sometimes I'm freaked out by how some Catholics have images of Mary. She wasn't God and I think that might have given Christianity a bad name. In Mohammed's eyes too.

And the images we have of Jesus (Who I really believe is the Son of God/ John 9 at the end if you want to look) are some white guy, but in reality He was jewish and look more Afro-Asiatic than anything.

Answer 1

Mohammed acquainted himself with Judaism and Christianity early in his life and was repulsed by what he saw as the worship of images.I believe that's why he doesn't want images, even of himself.

Answer 2

That is from interpreting the graven image to mean the graven image of anything with life in it. It is indeed a fundamentalist viewpoint.

There was a point in history when the Catholics had the same thing happen in some areas and the Iconoclasts destroyed many paintings and statues.

Answer 3

The Bible says we should not make images of anything and bow down before them or worship them in any way.

Exodus 20: 4 & 5a: "You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth. 5 You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them, because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion,"

Psalms 78: 58: "And they kept offending him with their high places,
And with their graven images they kept inciting him to jealousy."

Deuteronomy 5: 6-8: " “‘I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves. 7 You must never have any other gods against my face.
8 “‘You must not make for yourself a carved image, any form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth."

Revelation 9: 20: "But the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they should not worship the demons and the idols of gold and silver and copper and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;"

Matthew 4:10: "Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’” ( even Jesus warns that it is to God only that we should worship, and he is God's Son.)

Answer 4

True. Muhammad wanted to be firm that everyone should worship God. Not him for he was only a messenger of God.

Answer 5

it's called faith.