After doing some search in yahoo answers about muslim not able to draw humans and animals or objects, i’m still confused about the meaning of ‘animate objects’ or ’something with/without soul’
Some answers voiced that its ok to draw trees.
Trees have no soul?
no plant soul?
if trees can be drawn, can other plants be drawn?
What defines a soul of an object?
Can a muslim draw a robot?
Can a muslim draw a computer monitor screen then add 2 dots and a curve line? yes, it happened to be a smiley.
I also read some answers that its ok to draw body without head.
I also read that if students were to draw in school to learn, they can draw different parts separately as they will have no life.
heres my question: can i just draw a head only since nobody can live without a body?
what about monsters? they are stuffs that doesn’t exist on earth.
if a muslim were to draw a monster he/she created out of himself/herself how is that object a soul?
because it has legs?
because it has hands?
isn’t that merely perceptions that something has soul have?
a bacterium cell doesn’t have all those yet we can’t see they have no soul that will be a living thing without a soul.
a dragon drawn can be robotic on the inside.
isn’t an unseen monster/creature dead right from the start?
yes, i’m aware that it can still be a form of imitating muslim god’s creation of living things.
then again i’m puzzled, how is it then is considered imitation?
because you added a face? a smiley? = living thing?
can i draw and design a cool looking string then i imagine it to be a snake?
yea, a eyeless snake, not possible that its a living thing right?
so my question boils down to the definition of living things, animate objects, inanimate objects, and soul.
to me 1st answer: you the one confused.
Not only god, it applies to not able to draw humans and animals.
you are very very confused.
muslims can draw humans and animals. muslims CAN NOT draw god or prophets of god for different reasons.
we can’t draw god because we don’t know what god looks like and in our religion god has no form. you can’t give him an arm or a leg.
we don’t draw prophets because we have no idea what they looked like. that is why we draw prophets but there face is blanked out.
edit: LOL a non muslim is telling me about my own religion… my family has been muslim for generations and go to the mosque regularly my uncle is an artist.
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