Re: Portraying the Prophet
Actually Al-Farooq, the Quran says to follow the religion of Abraham, Monotheism. When the Quran says to the people of the time to follow Abraham's religion, it is given that the people of the time knew what Abraham's religion was and as such knew its practices, ie Salat, Zakat, Hajj. Quran is a statute book, it is a revision. For instance, it revises things like sexual intercourse is allowed at night in Ramadan while previously it was forbidded for the whole month. So there's your answer to things that aren't covered in the Quran, those things were assumed known. However, that's OK, I have my answer, there is nothing in the Quran that makes people think that drawing pictures is forbidden.