Why Muslims should not use images to boast "miracles"

[Philosopher]

I have seen Muslims boast about "miracles" hundreds of times by showing me random images of "Allahu signs" and other Islamic symbols in purely natural environments. These are examples:

"Allahu in a honeycomb:"



"Tree in ruku position towards Makkah:"



These are rather ridiculous and humorous claims by Muslims claiming they are signs from Allah?? Can any Muslims explain me this:

"Om sign on Cow:"

[Abdul Fattah]

I'm not sure but it looks painted on LOL

[snakelegs]

yep - it's a holy cow!

[NoName_55]

they have a holy snake too, you know?

salam from new old member

[Malaikah]

So are you going to tell us why we shouldn't? The honey comb and tree look pretty impressive to me!

And I think that cow just wanted its 15 minutes of fame lol

[MuhammadRizan]

that honeycomb and and tree is very unusual....the cow..hmmm i cant see anything unusual...why is it ridiculous and humorous anyway?

can honeycomb wrote other word? can tree perform other human gesture?

hmmm

[barney]

Burger King Ice cream!

[Malaikah]

That says Lllah mate lol. Nice try though!

[barney]

It does? Wow. Burger King got threatend about this until they replaced it with a "non-offensive" version.

[Malaikah]

Really? LOL

Well, yeh, notice how in the proper spelling the first line isn't joined to the rest of the word? That means it is the 'Alif' letter and makes an 'a' sound, but in the logo it is joined up so it is actually the letter 'lam', which is the equivalent of the letter L.

[Pygoscelis]

can honeycomb wrote other word? can tree perform other human gesture?

hmmm

I'll not post the image for some may find it offensive, but yes trees have indeed been formed in other human gestures. There is one rather famous one shaped in the form of a human hand, flipping the bird.

Oh and I once had a peanut shaped remarkably like Abraham Lincoln. So much so that hung onto it for a long while, before it finnally rotted away.

[barney]

I'll not post the image for some may find it offensive, but yes trees have indeed been formed in other human gestures. There is one rather famous one shaped in the form of a human hand, flipping the bird.

Oh and I once had a peanut shaped remarkably like Abraham Lincoln. So much so that hung onto it for a long while, before it finnally rotted away.

Did it have the hat on?

[Pygoscelis]

Did it have the hat on?

It did indeed! And it was even quasi separate from the head (the way peanuts can do that)

[ranma1/2]

the cow looks like it has japanese on it.

the roman letter 3 then the katakana form of ra to.

the katakana is often used for foreighn words or sounds.

Rato could then be Rat. and in japanese rats and mice are the same thing.

THis could easily be a holly reference to 3 blind mice... The surrounding part of the letters being black and black being associater with darkness or blindness.

[ranma1/2]

Of course here is the 3 blind mice

of course i cant tell whether there is actually a a wierd bunny in it as well?

[glo]

Pareidolia

We had a similar discussion in this thread ...

[snakelegs]

that honeycomb and and tree is very unusual....the cow..hmmm i cant see anything unusual...why is it ridiculous and humorous anyway?

can honeycomb wrote other word? can tree perform other human gesture?

hmmm

the cow had the sanskrit for "om" (hindu)

[ranma1/2]

the cow had the sanskrit for "om" (hindu)

could someone outline it like i did the japanese and the weird rabbit?

[MuhammadRizan]

the cow had the sanskrit for "om" (hindu)

oh! i see..

[H.E.Pennypacker]

Philosopher, trust me, those images are not a basis for my belief, and I am quite skeptical of them. First, we don't know if they have been tampered with or not, and I am quite confident Christians, Jewish people, and others have their own pictures.

Besides, if God wanted to communicate with us, there would be a far more direct way, and there would be far more useful means. A real benefit to believers would not be in the form of pictures, but it would relate to solidifying faith, and including proof for that faith. We should be far more impressed with science (such as God proving an article of faith through science - notice I didn't say provide all of faith through science, but just a few articles of faith, so that His word can distinguish itself from "bogus" deities), and real tangible things, rather than obscure images.

I like to think of myself as a pragmatic Muslim who is confident of God's existence, and I prefer being approached from a scientific/proof perspective than a million miracles.