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The image problem does not come out of the Koran, but from a Hadith.

Kind of like a life and times of Mohammed. This is also part of the religion. What I like about Islam is it is hard to misinterpret. - Tom

Volume 7, Book 72, Number 833: Narrated Abu Talha : The Prophet said, "Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or there are pictures."

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 834: Narrated Muslim:

We were with Masruq at the house of Yasar bin Numair. Masruq saw pictures on his terrace and said, "I heard 'Abdullah saying that he heard the Prophet saying, "The people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah will be the picture makers.'"

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 835: Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar :

Allah's Apostle said, "Those who make these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said to them. 'Make alive what you have created.'"

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 836: Narrated 'Aisha:

I never used to leave in the Prophet house anything carrying images or crosses but he obliterated it.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 837: Narrated Abu Zur'a:

l entered a house in Medina with Abu Huraira, and he saw a man making pictures at the top of the house. Abu Huraira said, "I heard Allah's Apostle saying that Allah said, 'Who would be more unjust than the one who tries to create the like of My creatures? Let them create a grain: let them create a gnat.' "

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 838: Narrated 'Aisha:

Allah's Apostle returned from a journey when I had placed a curtain of mine having pictures over (the door of) a chamber of mine. When Allah's Apostle saw it, he tore it and said, "The people who will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be those who try to make the like of Allah's creations." So we turned it (i.e., the curtain) into one or two cushions.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 840: Narrated 'Aisha :

I purchased a cushion with pictures on it. The Prophet (came and) stood at the door but did not enter. I said (to him), "I repent to Allah for what (the guilt) I have done." He said, "What is this cushion?" I said, "It is for you to sit on and recline on." He said, "The makers of these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection and it will be said to them, 'Make alive what you have created.' Moreover, the angels do not enter a house where there are pictures.'"

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 841: Narrated Abu Talha:

Allah's Apostle said, "Angels (of mercy) do not enter a house where there are pictures.'" The sub-narrator Busr added: "Then Zaid fell ill and we paid him a visit. Behold! There was, hanging at his door, a curtain decorated with a picture. I said to 'Ubaidullah Al-Khaulani, the step son of Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet , "Didn't Zaid tell us about the picture the day before yesterday?" 'Ubaidullah said, "Didn't you hear him saying: 'except a design in a garment'?"

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 842: Narrated Anas:

Aisha had a thick curtain (having pictures on it) and she screened the side of her i house with it. The Prophet said to her, "Remove it from my sight, for its pictures are still coming to my mind in my prayers."

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 843: Narrated Salim's father:

Once Gabriel promised to visit the Prophet but he delayed and the Prophet got worried about that. At last he came out and found Gabriel and complained to him of his grief (for his delay). Gabriel said to him, "We do not enter a place in which there is a picture or a dog."