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Why Depicting Prophet Muhammad Is Controversial in Islam?

Namo Abdulla

   WASHINGTON - The recent decapitation of a French schoolteacher in a
   Parisian suburb over showing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad to his
   class is the latest in a series of violent attacks in recent years over
   depictions of Islam's holiest figure.

   Some experts charge that illustrations and paintings have long been a
   controversial topic in Islam because the Quran does not say anything
   about it, leaving it open to numerous fatwas or religious ruling by
   different Islamic schools.

   The fatwas that exist on illustration art range from extreme ones that
   forbid the depiction, and [1]even photography, of any living organism,
   to more moderate ones that find certain artwork acceptable. Some more
   progressive views in the religion maintain that there is nothing wrong
   with portraying anyone, including Prophet Muhammed.

   Al-Azhar view

   A thousand-year-old institution, Egypt's al-Azhar University is widely
   considered as Sunni Islam's most prestigious center to issue fatwas.

References

   1. https://petapixel.com/2013/09/11/photography-sin-according-indias-leading-islamic-seminary/

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