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Is It Forbidden To Draw The Image Of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)?
In the Muslim world we are not supposed to draw an image of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The Islamic scholars strictly prohibit to draw a portrait of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Some of them even give fatwas to kill the person who draws such images. Where have they derived this ruling from ?
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Is It Forbidden To Draw The Image Of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)?
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In short, its not haram. But its recommended not to draw images of Prophet Mohammad saw because Islam forbids any thing which can lead to shirk. And it will be forbidden to draw any prophet image.
Despite no drawing, you may see certain people who give resemblence of Prophet Mohammad saw to Allah. Also, you might have observed people visiting various shrines.There are certain hadith which forbids image making and some ayah which are interpreted to prevent drawing of images.
‘Abd al-Rahmaan in his book kitab ul tawheed that when they good people died in previous nation, the people started to frequent their graves, then they made statues of them, then as time passed they started to worship them.
The ruling will come under sadde zariya
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I am not sure if it is covered in the above answer or not, but even when he was alive no one couldn’t have perfectly drawn his picture, let alone now. Thus any picture would have been a lie against the prophet and a big sin. Just like we see many types of Jesus pictures and statues and people praying to Jesus than Allah.
Even if there was a camera at that time, a picture would have been prohibitted due to the certainty that sooner or later people would start praying and asking prophet for help… meaning committing Shirk.
I think there could be other reasons too. When we see a picture, in out mind we draw thousands of words and create a judgement against the person automatically. If there was a picture of prophet some would have drawn a positive and some would have drawn a negative judgement about him based on his looks and some would have tried to manipulate his picture in positive and some in negative color. Focus would have shifted away from Allah, Quran and message of the prophet than his looks.
Even without his picture, in some religious circles, we see people commiting shirk. They are remembering prophet more than Allah… Asking prophet for help and coming close to worshipping the prophet… Just like Christians.
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