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ANSWER 1:Well since Allah is God, there are no pictures ... period. And since we are not 100% certain of how Muhammad looked, how can we have pictures?

Furthermore, many Muslims prohibit all pictures, let alone pictures of the Prophet and Allah, everywhere.

ANSWER 2:Well the 1st answer is right, but more religiously, they prohibit pictures of Allah and Muhammad to be put in mosques because they think they are praising a picture, not the real Allah and Muhammad. So they don't allow them because they don't want to praise just a picture, they want to praise the real Allah and Muhammad.
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there is no picture of Muhammad (pbuh) ever taken in history so to make one up is very disrespectful. Just like if someone looked at you and made your picture to be someone else would you like it?

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It is not exactly the pictures who are prohibited, mainly it is the fetish which was before Islam as GOD
And coz pictures can lead to idolatry, especially if drawn by a human.
good to note that once a painter drew a picture of a child holding some grapes, after he finished, a bird came to knock the grape, the painter tore his picture and said, if I've drawn the boy that perfect, he would have frightened the bird.

that's why pictures are prohibited, coz they are considered to be a similitude to Allah's creatures, and may lead human to deny God's creation wonders claiming the ability to make similar things..

But photographs are not, as they are only a reflection of light on a sensitive film, there is no human interference in such technique.


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it was reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) strongly forbade hanging pictures, and he commanded his great Companion 'Ali ibn Abi Taalib, "Do not leave any picture without blotting it out and do not leave any built-up grave without levelling it." (Narrated by Muslim, 1/66). Hanging up pictures of animate beings deprives the people of that house of a great blessing, which is the entrance of angels into that house. It was reported from Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "The angels do not enter a house in which there are statues or pictures." (Narrated by Imaam Ahmad; see also Saheeh al-Jaami', 1961).

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