Pictures- in the light of islam

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Re: Pictures- in the light of islam

@Pinstripe Danda

Until the advent of Renaissance in Europe and it’s pressures on to the islamic world, painting lifelike protraits was haram, so was havin glive models haram. Taking pictures would have gotten you killed. Islam forbade drawing in the likeness of a person/living thing because of perfection being only in the hands of allah..(read my signature). SO for 85% of islamic history, portraits, pictures etc were haram. Evil western influence changed that and now you have muslims running around taking/posting thier pics, drawing animals and birds and people…without a care for what Allah has to say. You all should be ashamed. :nono:

I think you’ve been miseducated.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/07/wam/ho_57.51.21.htm

You can see here that by 1224, under the Abbasid Khalifat in Baghdad lifelike portraits of persons/living things were being produced.

At the school which I went to, we were taught that 1224 significantly preceded the Rennaisance.

Also, this means that for at least the past 60% of Islamic history, the Khalifs and thus the ultimate religo-political leaders of Islam tolerated life-like paintings and considered them permissible.

Don’t get me wrong… I do think that this tolerance was incorrect. I’m merely delighting in the opportunity to prove you wrong