is drawing or sketching people haram?iv read that it is on many websites and in islamic books & that it is a very big gunah. one of my biggest hobbies or passion is to draw…sketch people, & well i stopped after i read all that but i do miss it.
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This is my personal opinion - i realize many individuals believe it is a gunnah and there is some weight to their argument, i think. If you enjoy drawing and sketching as a personal pursuit, and you are skilled at it, then i would consider that skill or talent as a blessing from Allah. Personally, if i were you - i would continue it because you are not doing anything 'wrong' with the pictures that you sketch, you are expressing your own God-given talent and creativity in a harmless manner. From my perspective, there are many other areas of my personality that are more important to work on rather than this.
This is my personal perspective and i could be 100% wrong; hopefully, if i am, someone will come and explain with references that this is inaccurate.
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I totally agree with you Nadia_H.
PK: I really don't think there is anything wrong in it. It is a god given gift like Nadia said. U are just doing it for ur pleasure, it is not going to hurt anyone or cause pain or grief to others.
I am not a religious person .. so I don't know what clause Islam has against sketching faces .. but as long as it causes no harm it ain't a sin( morally ) for me.
According to the reported traditions of the Holy Prophet (saw), it is said that he disliked people sketching images, especially of himself or other living beings, out of fear that one day these pictures be associated with God & be tools of Shirik. There are no Quranic injunctions that prohibit such activity, only through the basis of traditions (or Hadiths) that such decrees are supported.
Even those who consider sketching living beings as objectionable, do not consider drawing/painting trees, flowers, buildings or other forms of structure!
So, if you are concerned, you can always explore your talent by drawing more scenic stuff.
Personally, I hold pretty much the same view as Nadia
i just wrote a long reply containing what i read but i got dc.i guess someone will soon put up hadiths about how it is haram.
i do agree with Nadia...or i did think that way untill i read how it is a big gunaah to sketch people & how Allah will ask them to bring what they drew to life as a punishment & how whatever they drew will torture them in the end. what ticks me off is that its ok to draw plants & stuff,i mean they are still Gods creations,so y is it halal to draw them? & i dont have any wrong intentions while sketching.(again same view as Nadia)
AD i only like sketching human faces.
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I am not a religious person .. so I don't know what clause Islam has against sketching faces
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it's called the abandon-the-Quran clause.. The Qur'an never prohibits sketching etc.. i suggest you follow what Allah revealed and not some scholarly consensus.
i never knew u were not allowed to draw ppl.............u learn something new everyday.
what is haram is haram !
there is no point in debating over it ! if you do it and know it's not good than please don't go on telling the whole world that your doing something your are not allowed to do and then trying to justify ur self that it's not wrong ... it's so sick !!! get a hold of ur self !
It's that whole deal about depicting human faces. In my opinion, the only way that it would counter God is if the images were being used as idols. All other arguments against it are really about man-made concerns (lust, etc) or derivations from prior pagan beliefs (stuff about killing souls, etc).
I agree with Nadia and the others: God gave you a gift.. use it!
Allah almighty s very name is Almuswar meaining Artist
Drawing is not haram, our extremist and JAHIL maulvis can and will give fataw on evey thing.Drawing is not haram bec our Holy prphet told us to learn each and every kind of Art.
" Knowledge is the right fully owned Waraist of a Muslim, he will take it where evr place he gets it from" Holy Prophet PBUH
" Learn even if u have to go to china" Holy Prophet PBUH
At that time China was way advance in knowledge, they knew how to make paper and most of the paper othere than used in writing was used to make paper god sketches, this doesnt mean Holy Prophet PBUH was telling us to go to china and pray to those paper gods but to learn the Very knoowledge those ppl had about paper and its uses.
And if drawing and skecthing was haram science would have has not been this advanced bec when it ws dark age in Europe islam ws at its peak and there were many Muslim doctors and scientists who skeched different part of the bogy inner and exterior to pass on their notes form one person to another.
So if drawing is haram. then tv would be haram, using camera would be haram and if it ws haram y didnt holy Prophet him self tell us about it . Other than these Maulvis giveng fatwa and making evey thing haram.
Come to think of it we wouldnt be what we are today all of us, if not bec of drawing and sketching
Thank u
And Miss uzzy buzzy how can u belive in some thing like this with out conforming with any body in GS or asking the person to prove his or herpoint of view in light of Quran and hadith. We certainly do learn some thing every day but there is not a 100 percent possibility of its being true, unless or other wise being true
yep, one word, HARAAM....
thank god Michelangelo was born in italy otherwise we would not have the oppurtunity to to see his creativity.art also help design cars
and other material things.
thankyou guys for your replies.
still waiting for some one to put on some hadiths about how it is haram coz the book iv got tuhfat-tul-momeneen by molana mufti aashiq,it gives extreme answers about every thing.
I'm no scholar, but if you abandon all human sketches/drawings, then how doyou teach children at school the names the limbs? The students in biology classes have to learn about the human body.
Or what about hte doctors using x-rays?
It depends on what you use it for.
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And Miss uzzy buzzy how can u belive in some thing like this with out conforming with any body in GS or asking the person to prove his or herpoint of view in light of Quran and hadith. We certainly do learn some thing every day but there is not a 100 percent possibility of its being true, unless or other wise being true
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Don't worry "Mr" Ahmad i wont let this stop me from completing my Art GCSE.
Here's what the Ahadith say about it the choice is yours. :)
Prophet (sallalahu allayhe wa salam) is reported to have said:
“Whoever makes an image, Allah will punish him until he breathes life into it, and he will never be able to do that.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
“The people who will be the most severely punished before Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the image makers.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
“Those who make these images will be punished on the Day of Resurrection. It will be said to them, Give life to that which you have created!” (Bukhari & Muslim)
Ali (Karramallaho Wajhuh) is reported to have said:
“Shall I not send you on the same basis as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) sent me? Do not leave any statue without destroying it, and do not leave any built-up grave without razing it to the ground. (According to one report: and do not leave any picture without erasing it).” (Muslim)
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what is haram is haram !
there is no point in debating over it ! if you do it and know it's not good than please don't go on telling the whole world that your doing something your are not allowed to do and then trying to justify ur self that it's not wrong ... it's so sick !!! get a hold of ur self !
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I agree with you, you seem to be the only sensible person here.
Just wait in a few minutes they’ll be someone who’ll call you a Cyber Mullah, they don’t seem to like people who follow Islam according to the Quran and Sunnah. I’ve been called a Mullah enough times.
Islam to jesa Quran-o-Sunnat mein hai bas wesa hee hai. We can’t change it, even if some moderate Muslim does start giving out religious verdicts declaring Haram things Halal, its still going to be remain Haram and it’s still disobeying Allah no matter how much they kid themselves. Pretending its not a sin is not going to save them from Allah’s punishment. It’s only going to make them look worse in the eyes of Allah.
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and it’s still disobeying Allah no matter how much they kid themselves
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Is it disobeying God Allah or disobeying some unsubstantiated declaration that is reported to have been said by someone other than God? BTW, why is your icon under your picture exempt from this rule? Is it because you didn't "make" it? Or are you going to breathe life into it?
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Prophet (sallalahu allayhe wa salam) is reported to have said:
“Whoever makes an image, Allah will punish him until he breathes life into it, and he will never be able to do that.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
“The people who will be the most severely punished before Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the image makers.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
“Those who make these images will be punished on the Day of Resurrection. It will be said to them, Give life to that which you have created!” (Bukhari & Muslim)
Ali (Karramallaho Wajhuh) is reported to have said:
“Shall I not send you on the same basis as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) sent me? Do not leave any statue without destroying it, and do not leave any built-up grave without razing it to the ground. (According to one report: and do not leave any picture without erasing it).” (Muslim)
Halllo no body is talkin about making any kind pictures or idols to be worshipped, its just for the hobby.or Carear(sp) wot ever