Do you get offended seeing visual depictions of the prophets?

Yes indeed,this will offend me as this is forbidden in Islam.And i'll show my offense in any possible way.If that person is Muslim,i'll tell them its haram showing them Ahadith and if they are non-Muslims,i'll tell them straight i dont like them drawing my Noble Prophet Muhammad SAW and will try to stop them.
I think its my responsibility to even show my anger on such people for a Prophet who endure all the tortures and had wounds of stones on His precious self just to spread the message and to save me and the whole Ummah from the torments of hell fire.
Mus'ab bin Umair RA sacrificed his life to rescue the Prophet Muhammad SAW from the attacks of Kuffar and i cant even show offense and try to stop people from doing a thing that Muhammad SAW hates for himself,then why am i Muslim for?

format_quote Originally Posted by Darth Ultor

Can you bring a verse from the Quran or Hadith that says drawing will lead to Hell?

Off topic: What form of creativity isn't haraam? It seems that drawing, photography, film making...all forbidden.

Islamic Exhibit @ the met..

architecture, mathematical fractals, paintings and drawings that don't have human figures (in full) in other words features shouldn't be defined, calligraphy .. many things.. monolithic naked pieces of statues aren't considered as artistic as small pieces which require great skills and details..
if you marvel so much at naked statues you don't have time to appreciate the light coming in through brilliant archways, you don't appreciate the story in the murals told in the flowers and the water, you don't have time to smell the new carved wood by seasoned artisans and the marbles or the dazzle of the blue stain glass windows or worst yet appreciate the glory of the creator by reflecting on his actual creation and not a mock version of it..

best,

Yes, I would be offended. Firstly, it is haram, not only to draw prophets but to draw any living things except nature. And secondly, I don't see a reason for the need to picture our dear Prophets.
And once we draw anybody, we start to picture the person as the picture drawn. For example, when we talk about Harry Potter, we automatically bring the picture of the visual character, i.e. from the movie, Daniel Radcliffe. But that doesn't matter cause, Harry Potter is fictious and does not really exist. But that's not the same for picturising any real life human being.

None of us know how the Prophets actually looked like. And we must not try to picture them by our imagination. This would put a wrong picture in the minds of others.

format_quote Originally Posted by Riham

I don't care what people do. They will be held accountable by God for THEIR actions. Me, for mine.

I believe the Truth is so powerful it needs no defense. Whosoever dares to oppose it or reject it will eventually be destroyed.

So....I prefer to mind my own business.

format_quote Originally Posted by crimsontide06

I agree 100%. I prefer to mind my own business. I chose, no.

Ofcourse they'll be accounted for thier actions. But, we as Muslims must oppose the wrong. The least we can do is show opposition.

For example, if any of your family member is being humiliated/insulted, you are not going to just stand there and say to yourself, "I don't care, God will take of him!"

It just doesn't work!

If you think even if you oppose, it will be of no use, then you are wrong. ONE MAN DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

format_quote Originally Posted by Darth Ultor

Off topic: What form of creativity isn't haraam? It seems that drawing, photography, film making...all forbidden.

None of the above are haraam, unless haraam is not included in it. About drawing, it's already cleared my Neon Teen's post. As for photography and film making, they are not forbidden, as long they are for a good cause. Like, modeling is haraam and taking photoes at other times are not. And it's the same for film making too. Remember, as long as your intentions are pure, it's not haraam.

As a Muslim I am against any drawings of Prophets (peace be upon them). We don't need images to love the righteous.

Peace,

I think it would be one of the only few ways I could be offended.

format_quote Originally Posted by Darth Ultor

What [removed] is that they keep making Jesus white. Where does it say he was a white man with brown hair and blue eyes?

Where'd they ever say he had a thick British accent either? But he always does.

People have a way of taking a good thing and running with it. The original idea was that people should not craft icons, that's all. And somehow everyone got it in their heads that this means never making any images of prophets whatsoever, no matter the reason, no matter the usage, because apparently if you did an illustrated book about the prophets for children then their first instinct would be to fall down in front of the pretty pictures. Or if you were to, say, make a pro-Islamic pamphlet for outsiders with a picture on the cover of the prophets welcoming us all with open arms, that could be interpreted somehow as inviting shirk. I've never heard such nonsense. It's total paranoia. It's weird how many times lately I've had to discuss the slippery slope fallacy.

EDIT: Here's a link.

format_quote Originally Posted by IAmZamzam

The original idea was that people should not craft icons, that's all. And somehow everyone got it in their heads that this means never making any images.. [...].. ...I've never heard such nonsense. It's total paranoia. It's weird how many times lately I've had to discuss the slippery slope fallacy.

format_quote Originally Posted by Abu Loren

The Prophet ()entered upon me while there was a curtain having pictures (of animals) in thehouse. His face got red with anger, and then he got hold of the curtain andtore it into pieces. The Prophet ()said, "Such people as paint these pictures will receive the severestpunishment on the Day of Resurrection ."

brother Abu Loren for posting this hadeeth. This puts to rest any notion, such as in the link in post above yours, that only icons or pictures that might lead to worship were forbidden. Clearly the Prophet and his household (may Allah be pleased with them), would not worship and would not be led to worship the images in pictures. If the above was the real reason, then the Prophet would not have got angry, nor wold have ordered the curtain to be torn. It's interesting that in the link given in the post, no hadeeth of the Prophet , of which there are many, prohibiting picture making, has been used, and instead, one report of not even a sahaabi, but perhaps one of the taabi'een, which doesn't refer to the Prophet in any way, has been used to make the opposing point.

And Allah knows best.

What the link mainly said is that "pictures and paintings were primarily used for the purpose of polytheistic worship". This is why they "mocked Allah in the process of creating", as all those other ahadith said. Assocation mattered. Other Muslims may have known you weren't a fire worshiper but you still made the statement anyway by growing the beard. It's not as though in the very act of sculpting a sculptor is playing God. He could even be making a sculpture of a man pointing to the heavens, with a caption beneath saying, "ALWAYS LOOK UP IN WONDER AT THE BEAUTY OF THE SKIES AND SEE THE GLORY OF CREATION, AND WORSHIP THE ONE WHO MADE IT ALL." Is that evil? Now if, on the other hand, the sculptor were making one of the idols which were smashed in a certain public place by a certain prophet we know....

format_quote Originally Posted by crimsontide06

no...getting all hot and bothered over a picture is silly.

So someone posts a picture of you but you have [edit] and red lips from lipstick. Are you going to get "all hot and bothered over this picture?" You're silly

The thing is, we don't know how the Prophet (peace be upon him) looked like. Let's keep it that way. The visuals of the Prophet (peace be upon him) on T.V, Internet, etc. are of course 99.999999999999999% wrong anyway since we don't know.