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Images Offensive?<\/h2>\nBy: Abu Ibrahim<\/p>\n
As you may or may not hear, movie theatres across America this weekend are premiering the movie, \u201cNoah,\u201d starring Russell Crowe.\u00a0 Several of my Muslim friends and colleagues have expressed interest and excitement about the movie and their desire to attend a showing of the film. Therefore, I felt it necessary to implore us to show restraint and not waste our time watching it.\u00a0 As Muslims, we should abhor that Hollywood or any entity would produce a movie depicting a Prophet.<\/p>\n
Images Offensive?<\/h2>\nWe often get desensitized, especially those of us living in the West, when it comes to making images of the prophets since we see so many portraits of Jesus ![\"'alayhi'l-sal\u0101m](\"http:\/\/muslimmatters.muslimmatters.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/islamic-graphics\/img\/black\/20\/alayhis.png\" "\\"'alayhi'l-sal\u0101m")
everywhere we go. Nevertheless, we should firmly be against the imaging of any of our Islamic Prophets.\u00a0 Many of us get up in arms when others portray our Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad in a cartoon, but don’t blink an eye if any of our other beloved prophets are depicted.\u00a0 Before you say that cartoons depicting the Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad are meant to be offensive while other images are not, just think about the outrage caused by Maajid Nawaz with his cartoon in England back in January.\u00a0 As Muslims, we rightfully should be offended when anyone depicts our Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad whether done to be offensive or not.\u00a0 What I’m also trying to advocate is that, as Muslims, we should similar be offended when others depict other prophets as well, including but not limited to Prophets Eesa and Nuh .<\/p>\n
Another problematic aspect of the movie includes the role played by Russell Crowe.\u00a0 As Muslims, we honestly don’t know too much about what Prophet Nuh looked like.\u00a0 However, if we watch this movie, we will start to intertwine the character played by Russell Crowe, looks included, into our imagination of Prophet Nuh . \u00a0Russell Crowe has nothing on Prophet Nuh , so let’s not give him the opportunity to represent him in our minds.<\/p>\n
The producer of the movie \u201cNoah,\u201d a self-professed atheist, according to the Washington Times<\/a>, says he is proud of the fact that he’s taken a story inspired by God’s word and turned it into something so secular.<\/p>\n By sitting through a two hour movie specifically about one of the greatest human beings in history, our subconscious may start to associate the props in the movie (the clothes, the bad guys, the language) as all being part of the story of our beloved prophet.<\/p>\n Even if we fight the urge, our subconscious may start thinking of Russell Crowe’s version of Prophet Nuh As Muslims, we should firmly restrain ourselves from showing support for the \u201cNoah\u201d movie.\u00a0 Many conservative Christian groups have already expressed concerns regarding the movie.\u00a0 Paramount Pictures has admitted it took some \u201cartistic license\u201d in producing the movie.\u00a0 Several Muslim countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have already banned the movie (source<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Abu Ibrahim As you may or may not hear, movie theatres across America this weekend are premiering the movie, \u201cNoah,\u201d starring Russell Crowe.\u00a0 Several…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3. Don’t want to mess up my Reading of Surah Nuh<\/h2>\n
when we are reciting the verses regarding the flood in the Qur\u02be\u0101n.<\/p>\n