Re: Picture of Hazoor PBUH on wikipedia
making of pictures and labeling it Hazoor PBUH is not ignorance according to you but if some one say donot do it you say its ignorance nice thinking and still you say you are muslim , good , good
hopefully you will be soon awarded with noble prize
Again, you fail to understand the distinction. Am I advocating that people go out and make pictures of Mohammed? No.
It would be ridiculous. No one knows what he looks like, so the picture would just be as you see him in your mind. In other words, its really not a picture OF the Prophet. Its a picture of how YOU perceive him.
Nevertheless, what I'm saying is that these are pieces of history, and you can't discard pieces of history you dislike on whim. You have to preserve it so it can be referenced and understood. The people who made them are dead. So, you can't punish them or chide them. But you can't stop people from referencing history. WHICH IS WHAT YOU'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO DO. There is no such prohibition in Islam, and certainly not from God, and therefore, you have no right to ask that such a prohibiion be made. You can't make something unlawful that is lawful, and this is directly from the Quran.
If I sign this petition, I am actually NOT saying "We shouldn't make pictures of the prophet". I'm saying "We should not reference parts of history that we dislike", which is academically silly. How many papers have you written in school about bad things that happened in history? How many incidents have you read about that were evil? Should they have happened? No. Should you read about them? Yes, you need knowledge. That means you need knowledge of the evil as well as the good, so that you can differentiate between the two, and so that you DON'T repeat history.
You can't expect people not to make the same mistakes again if you don't share with people mistakes dones in the past.
Is that more clear to you now?
Muslims over centuries have done things they shouldn't have. You cannot erase that information. For what? So that you can show the world how perfect muslims have been? You can't hide the stains of Islamic history. Islam doesn't need that from you. Its pristine and perfect on its own. However, its followers have not been, and there is no shame in admitting that mistakes were made in the past.
Hence, you should not censor history.