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[snakelegs]

the thing about pictures is that it was not always true historically. here is a link to some art portraying the prophet himself!

http://www.islamicboard.com/basics-islam/20785-depicting-prophet-art.html

so it seems that sometimes it was forbidden and sometimes permitted.

i still don't understand how someone who thinks even muslim tv is haram could be on the internet.

 

[Pk_#2]

............. no comment...

why what's wrong with the internet? : snakelegs

(peace)

 

[snakelegs]

............. no comment...

why what's wrong with the internet? : snakelegs

(peace)

nothing at all from my standpoint but how do you avoid seeing pictures on the internet? i've seen some in ads that even i think are disgusting. so i would think that anyone who thinks that even muslim tv is haram would not be able to use the internet.

 

[Pk_#2]

Ohh yeah that's true ...you mean pop-ups and that?

But you don't intend to see them, pop-ups i mean, they come out of nowhere, your not aware that they will come up at a certain moment...

But Tv...You know there are pictures about...right...and you intend to go and turn on the television and watch The Simpsons or whatever,

Allah knows best!

(Peace)

 

[snakelegs]

Ohh yeah that's true ...you mean pop-ups and that?

But you don't intend to see them, pop-ups i mean, they come out of nowhere, your not aware that they will come up at a certain moment...

But Tv...You know there are pictures about...right...and you intend to go and turn on the television and watch The Simpsons or whatever,

Allah knows best!

(Peace)

i don't have a tv. yes, it's not just pop-ups either. like you're forced to look at ads for diet crap with a half-naked skinny woman. in the past yahoo groups had some very offensive ads - lately this has gotten better.

 

[Woodrow]

Pictures on TV and the internet are a very interesting phenomena. Hard to belive but at no time is there ever a full picture on the screen. What we are actually seeing are a series of dots that if frozen at a given instant would be quite without meaning. It is only our own perception that is able to perceive them as a picture. Of course if you use your printer to print a picture, you will have an actual image.

I could understand it if the scholars do not consider a TV or internet picture as being an image as in reality there never is an actual image on the screen.

However, I am not an Islamic scholar and that is only my opinion. I just consider the screen as being a series of independant pixels that are only visible for about 1/32 of a second each. It is only because my brain is able to merge all of these seperate dots that I am able to have an illusion of a picture.

 

[snakelegs]

this was my understanding also from one of the LI administrators - that a picture on the tv or computer is not tangible so it is not in the same category.
but, the original poster on this thread wanted the picture on the LI forum "logo" removed. also, you know all the avatars that depicted people were removed.
go figger.

 

[Far7an]

also, you know all the avatars that depicted people were removed.
go figger.

As one of the admins so eloquently put it:

We're not saying that pictures of people are all wrong, we are saying that giving members the privelage to choose such a picture for their avatar or sig or profile pic opens the door to many selections that are not appropriate for an Islamic forum. If we were removing all pictures of humans because we felt they were haram, then that would be a different issue. But here we are only taking away a privelgae from members.