format_quote Originally Posted by
darknite
I was reading that the mirror had something to do with your soul. When you look in to it some of it remains in there. A long time ago a muslim friend of mine was saying that mirrors are not really a bad thing but are frowned upon because it creates an image of you. I can see the two kind of linking together. Is there is nothing in the Quran about mirrors?
I believe it is considered bad practices to have an image of yourself made, in terms of a mirror, it is an inanimate object, a sheet of glass coated with reflective mettallic oxide on the other side.
It does not have any power, it cannot do anything to you, it cannot bring you anything, the only thing it can do is what you bought it to do, show an image of what is in front of it, in fact, in order to separate the terminolgy mirror which means replica in some contexts, some people refer to it as a 'looking glass'.
In some parts of Africa, people hunting in the bush and people confronted with masquerades and who had a beleif in negative or bad spirits could be found wearing clothing that has mirrors, the idea being that if a wild animal or bad spirit is coming toward you it will see its reflection in the mirror and frighten itself away.
With reference to the starting point of this thread, without wanting to be offensive and please no offense meant, but does the person who posted this have nothing else to think of like living, praying, eating, family, social commitment, working, doing good deeds and so on to be thinking of such trivia or rather superstition of a negative type, a bit like chain mail, the type that started most of the wars we have to cope with all over the world.
Okay, writer, go round the house and break every mirror in your home and then wait for what you beleive in, Islam can't help you there; unless of course you want to find a simpler and peace oriented way of living in which case, I invite you to grasp Islam, its philosophies, its fundamentals and perhaps free yourself from the Mirror Idol.
Best of luck.