Allah's Image
Man's mind is limited and Allah is limitless. Therefore man can not hope to understand Allah's attributes except what Allah chooses to reveal to him. If man tries to picture Allah in his mind he will only go astray, because Allah is different from anything man can conceive. Any image of God which man constructs in his mind will be from some part of creation, or a composite of created things which he has observed. Thus if he pictures Allah in his mind, he ends up giving Allah the attributes of creation.
Intellectually and emotionally man may be able to able to conceive some of the attributes of God like: All Powerful, Merciful, Compassionate.
Trying to visualize God in some form, or image has led man to deviate from the true teaching of Monotheism into worshipping human beings (Prophets, Imams, gods, graves, creatures etc). Muslims believe that God sent Messengers to all nations with the message of Monotheism and man has repeatedly changed that teaching (including some Muslims).
Allah informs mankind in the Quran: Surah: Ayah 42:11; 112:4;6:103. A study of these verses will convince one that it is futile to try to visualize God because nothing is like Him.
Finally, in the Quran, Allah states rather categorically in Surah Baqara (2) verse 3 that the Quran is addressed to those who believe in the unseen.
And also if there was proof of God and we could see Him then that would not really be a test of faith which the Deen of Islam is all about.
Aziz Huq
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From: akbar_50@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:56:04 +0000
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] More than 2.5m Muslims threaten to leave Facebook after four Islamic pages are taken down
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There is no specific ban on images of Allah or the Prophet Mohammed in the Koran but there is one line which is commonly taken to mean that it is impossible for human hands to recreate his likeness. To attempt to do so would is an insult to Allah, it is believed.
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This is a very vague argument. Human imagination always comes with an image. We don't think void. Whenever we think of Allah or anything we never saw or experienced an image invariably created in our mind. Logically anything that does not have a shape or color does not make an entity. I challenge any one who can claim that he/she imagined something but did not visualize anything. If my contention is wrong I seek clarification from the knowledgeable. I will not appreciate anything based on blind faith.
Akbar Hussain
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:15:57 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] More than 2.5m Muslims threaten to leave Facebook after four Islamic pages are taken down
More than 2.5million users will leave Facebook unless certain Islamic pages are reinstated, it has been claimed.A template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accuses founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior members of Facebook of 'ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5million Muslims'.The Muslim community is angry that four extremely popular Islamic pages were removed from the site and the letter warns that unless its demands are met Facebook's Muslim users will move to an Islamic alternative.
The letter demands not only that the pages are reinstated but that new rules are introduced which make it a violation of Facebook's terms to post anti-Islamic comments.And Facebook is given notice that unless the changes are introduced then 2.5 million Muslim users will leave to join madina.com, a social networking site for Muslims.
The letter reads: 'Although you have attended the world's best communication skills courses you have been most successful in growing great hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable [sic] damage.'
It also accuses Facebook of 'irresponsible behaviour' for allowing to host 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' pages which sparked controversy for encouraging users to draw portraits of the Prophet.
There is no specific ban on images of Allah or the Prophet Mohammed in the Koran but there is one line which is commonly taken to mean that it is impossible for human hands to recreate his likeness. To attempt to do so would is an insult to Allah, it is believed.
The letter demands that the four deleted pages are reinstated, disrespecting Islamic religious symbols is banned and any Facebook page which does so is disabled.Madina.com was a social networking site set up specifically for the Muslim community. It pledges to abide by the 'highest Islamic principals' and encourages Muslim unity. Female users are asked not to use pictures of themselves as profile pictures.
According to Facebook the Islamic pages, which included 'I love Mohammed' and 'Quran Lovers', were taken down because they were being used to 'spam' users, which is against the company's policy.The pages were were using a JavaScript code that when entered in the address bar, would add all a user's friends to the Page Suggestions – making it similar to spamming people across Facebook.
A spokeswoman said: 'The pages in question were taken down because they violated our policies about spamming users. These pages were not removed because of content violations.'
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