Answering Christianity Research Center

 Assalamu alaikum,

 From what I know (and insha Allah it's correct), drawing living things by hand is forrbiden. Unless it is for educational or neccesary  purposes. But drawing without the usage of your hand is not haram. This is what my Islamic session teacher told me and what Naik Zakir said. But I highly doubt this opinion so it is safe to stay away from it. Acording to the Malki mathhab, 2D drawings are permitted.  Regarding cartoons, anime, video games, and other animated things such as Emojis:

They are NOT haram insha Allah. This is according to Islamqa which is a little bit strict when it comes to things like this.



"The basic principle with regard to adults (and children) watching cartoons for fun is that it is permissible, so long as they are free of anything that is contrary to Islamic teaching" (fatwa 225149)


" Emojis do not come under the same ruling as images that it is forbidden to make, draw, or use, for two reasons:

1 – It contains none of the features of a real face, such as eyes, mouth and nose, and it has no head or ears.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The image is the head; if the head is cut off, there is no image.” Narrated by al-Ismaa’eeli in his Mu’jam from the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas and classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah no. 1921 and in Saheeh al-Jaami’ no. 3864.

2 – The majority of fuqaha’ are of the view that if something is cut off from an image without which it could no longer live, then it is not a haraam image. For a detailed discussion of this issue and the views of other madhhabs, see Ahkaam al-Tasweer fi’l-Fiqh al-Islami, pp. 224-240.

But we should point out two things:

This usage in chatting on the internet does not come under the drawing of images, rather it comes under the use of images." (Fatwa 110504)

So we can see from all of this is that using images does not come under the making or drawing of these images, video games and animated things are permissible, and they donly not come under the heading of imitating Allah's creation. Regarding the hadiths that you mentioned, drawing is permissible for children and their mothers. I hope that I answered your questions properly. I would also like to mention that cameras are not haram and this is the most correct view. An example of a scholar who allows it is Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qardawi from Egypt. Many of the scholars who forbid taking pictures now permit it and they have Facebook and social media accounts of their own.

 Assalamu alaikum brothers,

 I will insha Allah continue the debate after or in the end of Ramadan. Every single point that our professional hadith scholar (Osama Abdallah) has made will be refuted.

Sincerely,

A proud royal desert monkey, Abdullah Madi Abdullah Al-Madi Al-Tamimi (Saudi Arabia, Riyadh)

 Introvert, I think that you deserve a temporary ban to be honest.

These pages refute arguments about the Quran and the syro-aramiac language:

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/vowel.html

http://www.hamzatzortzis.com/q-a/is-the-quran-a-manipulated-text-borrowed-from-syro-aramaic-christian-documents/

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/luxreview2.html

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/earlyquran.html

 No it doesn't. Please read this article:


http://calltotruth.weebly.com/blog/rebuttal-to-wikiislam-if-anyone-slew-a-person

5:32 still refers to Muslims these days. Brother if you ever have a huge doubt please PM. I have went through it and trust me it was the worst feeling that I have got in my life. I even thought of suicide authobillah. I will insha Allah make a thread when the members of this site will talk about doubt of one's religion, their experience, and how to fix it. I would also like to add that it's Ramadan brother. Go read the Quran, pray, mention Allah's name, and spend a lot of time with your family (highly recommended if you want to forget about doubts). Don't let it ruin your life just like it did to mine. Take my tip and take a break from religious debating and other religions. Trust me brother. Please. Thank you very much and I wish a Ramadan Mubarak to you

 Assalamu alaikum,

 Some Islamophobe have quoted this hadith to prove that Islam is wrong.  This hadith is in Al-Tabari and is from Ibn Abbas (RA):

"The other report, referring to a different concept, is what I was told by Muhammad b. Abi Mansur- Khalaf b. Wasil- Abu Nu'aym- Muqatil b. Hayyan- Ikrimah: One day when Ibn `Abbas was sitting (at home or in the mosque), a man came to him and said: Ibn `Abbas, I heard Ka'b, the Rabbi, tell a marvelous story about the sun and the moon. He continued. Ibn `Abbas who had been reclining sat up and asked what it was. The man said: He suggested that on the Day of Resurrection, the sun and the moon will be brought as if they were two hamstrung oxen, and flung into Hell. `Ikrimah continued. Ibn `Abbas became contorted with anger and exclaimed three times: Ka'b is lying! Ka'b is lying! Ka'b is lying! This is something Jewish he wants to inject into Islam. God is too majestic and noble to mete out punishment where there is obedience to Him. Have you not heard God's word: "And He subjected to you the sun and the moon, being constant" — referring to their constant obedience. How would He punish two servants that are praised for constant obedience? May God curse that rabbi and his rabbinate! How insolent is he toward God and what a tremendous fabrication has he told about those two servants that are obedient to God! He continued. Then he said several times: We return to God. He took a little piece of wood from the ground and started to hit the ground with it. He did that for some time, then lifting his head he threw away the little piece of wood and said: You want me to tell you what I heard the Messenger of God say about the sun and the moon and the beginning of their creation and how things went with them? We said: We would, indeed, May God show mercy unto you. He said: When the Messenger of God was asked about that, he replied: When God was done with His creation and only Adam remained to be created, He created two suns from the light of His Throne. His foreknowledge told Him that He would leave here one sun, so He created it as (large as) this world is from east to west. His foreknowledge also told Him that He would efface it and change it to a moon; so the moon is smaller in size than the sun. But both are seen as small because of the sun's altitude and remoteness from the earth.

He continued: If God had left the two suns as He created them in the beginning, night would not have been distinguishable from day. A hired man then would not know until when he should labor and when he should receive his wages. A person fasting would not know until when he must fast. A woman would not know how to reckon the period of her impurity. The Muslims would not know the time of the pilgrimage. Debtors would not know when their debts become due. People in general would not know when to work for a livelihood and when to stop for resting their bodies. The Lord was too concerned with His servants and too merciful to them (to do such a thing). He thus sent Gabriel to drag his wing three times over the face of the moon, which at the time was a sun. He effaced its luminosity and left the light in it. This is (meant by) God's word: "And We have made the night and the day two signs. We have blotted out the sign of the night, and We have made the sign of the day something to see by." He continued. The blackness you can see as lines on the moon is a trace of the blotting. God then created for the sun a chariot with 360 handholds from the luminosity of the light of the Throne and entrusted 360 of the angels inhabiting the lower heaven with the sun and its chariot, each of them gripping one of those handholds. He entrusted 360 of the angels inhabiting (the lower?) heaven with the moon and its chariot, each of them gripping one of those handholds.

Then he said: For the sun and the moon, He created easts and wests (positions to rise and set) on the two sides of the earth and the two rims of heaven, 180 SPRINGS IN THE WEST OF BLACK CLAY – THIS IS (MEANT BY) GOD'S WORD: "He found it setting in a muddy spring," meaning by "muddy (hami'ah)" black clay - and 180 springs IN THE EAST LIKEWISE OF BLACK CLAY, bubbling and boiling like a pot when it boiled furiously. He continued. Every day and night, the sun has a new place where it rises and a new place where it sets. The interval between them from beginning to end is longest for the day in summer and shortest in winter. This is (meant by) God's word: "The Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests," meaning the last (position) of the sun here and the last there. He omitted the positions in the east and the west (for the rising and setting of the sun) in between them. Then He referred to east and west in the plural, saying; "(By) the Lord of the easts and wests." He mentioned the number of all those springs (as above).

He continued. God created an ocean three farsakhs (18 kilometers) removed from heaven. Waves contained, it stands in the air by the command of God. No drop of it is spilled. All the oceans are motionless, but that ocean flows at the rate of the speed of an arrow. It is set free to move in the air evenly, as if it were a rope stretched out in the area between east and west. The sun, the moon, and the retrograde stars RUN IN ITS DEEP SWELL. THIS IS (MEANT BY) GOD'S WORD: "Each swims in a sphere." "The sphere" is the circulation of the chariot IN THE DEEP SWELL OF THAT OCEAN. By Him Who holds the soul of Muhammad in His hand! If the sun WERE TO EMERGE FROM THAT OCEAN, it would burn everything on earth, including even rocks and stones, and if the moon were to emerge from it, it would afflict (by its heat) the inhabitants of the earth to such and extent that they would worship gods other than God. The exception would be those of God's friends whom He would want to keep free from sin.

Ibn `Abbas said that `Ali b. Abi Talib said to the Messenger of God: You are like my father and my mother! You have mentioned the course of the retrograde stars (al-khunnas) by which God swears in the Qur'an, together with the sun and the moon, and the rest. Now, what are al-khunnas? The Prophet replied: `Ali, they are five stars: Jupiter (al-birjis), Saturn (zuhal), Mercury (`utarid), Mars (bahram), and Venus (al-zuhrah). These five stars rise and run like the sun and the moon and race with them together. All the other stars are suspended from heaven as lamps are from mosques, and circulate together with heaven praising and sanctifying God with prayer. The Prophet then said: If you wish to have this made clear, look to the circulation of the sphere alternately here and there. It is the circulation of heaven and the circulation of all the stars together with it except those five. Their circulation today is what you see, and that is their prayer. Their circulation to the Day of Resurrection is as quick as the circulation of a mill because of the dangers and tremors of the Day of resurrection. This is (meant by) God's word: "On a day when the heaven sways to and fro and the mountains move. Woe on that day unto those who declare false (the Prophet's divine message)."

He continued. When the sun rises, it rises upon its chariot FROM ONE OF THOSE SPRINGS accompanied by 360 angels with outspread wings. They draw it along the sphere, praising and sanctifying God with prayer, according to the extent of the hours of night and the hours of day, be it night or day. When God wishes to test the sun and the moon, showing His servants a sign and thereby asking them to stop disobeying Him and to start to obey, the sun tumbles from the chariot AND FALLS INTO THE DEEP OF THAT OCEAN, which is the sphere. When God wants to increase the significance of the sign and frighten His servants severely, all of the sun falls, and nothing of it remains upon the chariot. That is a total eclipse of the sun, when the day darkens and the stars come out. When God wants to make a partial sign, half or a third or two-thirds of it fall into the water, while the rest remains upon the chariot, this being a partial eclipse. It is a misfortune for the sun or for the moon. It frightens His servants and constitutes a request from the Lord (for them to repent). However this may be, the angels entrusted with the chariot of the sun divide into two groups, one that goes to the sun and pulls it toward the chariot, and another that goes to the chariot and pulls it toward the sun, while at the same time they keep it steady in the sphere, praising and sanctifying God with prayer, according to the extent of the hours of day or the hours of night, be it night or day, summer or winter, autumn or spring between summer and winter, lest the length of night and day be increased in any way. God has given them knowledge of that by inspiration and also the power for it. The gradual emergence of the sun or the moon FROM THE DEEP OF THAT OCEAN covering them which you observe after an eclipse (is accomplished by) all the angels together who, after having brought out all of it, carry it (back) and put it upon the chariot. They praise God that He gave them the power to do that. They grip the handholds of the chariot and draw it in the sphere, praising and sanctifying God with prayer. Finally, they bring the sun to the west. Having done so; THEY PUT IT INTO THE SPRING, and the sun falls from the horizon of the sphere INTO THE SPRING.

Then the Prophet said, expressing wonder at God’s creation: How wonderful is the divine power with respect to something than which nothing more wonderful has ever been created!… By Him Who holds the soul of Muhammad in His hand! Were those people not so many and so noisy, all the inhabitants of this world would hear the loud crash made by the sun falling when it rises and when it sets… Whenever the sun sets, it is raised from heaven to heaven by the angels’ fast flight, until it is brought to the highest, seventh heaven, and eventually is underneath the Throne. It falls down in prostration, and the angels entrusted with it prostrate themselves together with it. Then it is brought down to heaven. When it reaches this heaven, dawn breaks. When it comes down FROM ONE OF THOSE SPRINGS, morning becomes luminous. And when it reaches this face of heaven, the day becomes luminous.

(The History of Al-Tabari: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood, translated by Franz Rosenthal [State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany, 1989], volume 1, pp. 232-238; bold and capital emphasis ours)"

Response:

 This hadith is extremely false and fabricated.


حكم المحدث:[ فيه ] مسلمة بن الصلت متروك وعمر بن صبيح مشهور بالوضع

Grade of the hadith:  Bin Al-Silat said: it's a hadith matruk and Umar bin sabih said: it's a mauduu.

Hadith matruk means: The hadith is reported by those who are accused of lying and they made up that hadith. The hadith is also contrary to the science of Hadith.

Hadith mauduu means: It is a made up hadith which is attributed to the prophet (PBUH), but he never said that and it has no connection to him.

Source:

http://hdith.com/?s=يا+ابن+عباس+،+سمعت+العجب+من+كعب+الحبر+،+يذكر+في+الشمس+والقمر+.+قال+%3A+وكان+متكئا+فاحتفز+ثم+قال+%3A+وما+ذاك+؟+قال+%3A+زعم+أنه+يجاء+بالشمس+والقمر+يوم+القيامة+كأنهما+ثوران+عقيران+،+

The first hadith highlighted in red.

Salam Aleikum brothers, thanks for the answer, may God pays you. Now, that theory is a new theory, because I had not listened a theory which said that the Islam comes from the Hinduism; equally, thanks for all and the rebuttal, salam aleikum.

Assalamu alaykum brother Sharif,

 The evidence that they give is stupid.
 "The Kabaa was A Hindu temple"

http://thefactsaboutislam.blogspot.com/2015/02/stupid-conspiracy-theory-hinduism-and.html?m=1

FUN FACT: Prophet Muhammad can be found in the Hindu scriptures! http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/prophhs.html

There is no need for these types of pictures.  It makes us look desperate, which we're not.  Sam Shamoun had been thoroughly refuted here:

www.answering-christianity.com/sam_shamoun_rebuttals.htm
www.answering-christianity.com/quran/quranerr.htm
www.answering-christianity.com/quran/textual.htm
www.answering-christianity.com/ac8.htm#links
www.answering-christianity.com/ac20.htm#links
www.answering-christianity.com/ac3.htm#prophecies
www.answering-christianity.com/ac3.htm#links

Take care,
Osama Abdallah

 The dude has constantly insulted Islam. He also is know for abusing Muslims a lot. So I see nothing wrong with making fun of him.