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nyaaar hee this reminds me of what happened to me a year ago..

I was also fighting with my parents a lot and such, and all that. Couldn't stand them, was so annoyed with them and we'd fight and they'd yell and so would I, etc.

And so, a year back, before they went to college elsewhere, I had these two young teachers who I love with all my heart. One of them, I remember, I told him about it.. and then he told me, in this very fragile way, something like.. well, his parents had died, and he told me "Yeah I know what you mean.. but you know, when they're gone, you just totally keep remembering all the things they said to you and you said to them, and all the fighting totally isn't worth it in the end.." He said something along those lines, and it totally quieted my heart.

After that, I took that feeling to heart and the fighting stopped.

Sure, fighting started again sometimes, but then I would remember what he said, the feeling he conveyed, and I would eventually calm down.





Well, even then, parents are hard-headed xD Don't try discussing or arguing with them BOTH together.. do it when they're alone without help, and especially with the more open-minded one > biggrin . And sometimes, it's something we don't wanna accept but it's true: Parents will almost never listen. So like.. just kind of don't say anythin if they decide to act up.

And as the Prophet (s) said, something like.. when you're angry and standing, sit down. when you're sitting and angry, lie down. when you're lying down and you're angry, go do Wudu.

Woodoo power o_o

My parents have always told me that it's haraam to draw humans because when you die, Allah will ask you to put life into them and you obviously can't, only Allah can.

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These are the proofs that point toward it as haraam.

But, then again, every hadith and Quran verse was sent as guidance to a certain problem. For instance, picture-making could be just referring to idol-making, or forms of it. These hadiths could be directed to the prevention of idolatry exclusively.

Most Imams and Sheikhs have said that it is haraam.. Imam Malik, being the odd one out, actually ruled only 3-D pieces of art as haraam, probably hinting also at the interpretation that the disallowing of picturemaking is only to prevent idolmaking.

So.. does that mean that drawings that are nice to look at are not allowed? For every thing that is haraam, there is a reason.. I can't exactly decide why art would be haraam. Every time I draw and such, I do it with the utmost humility.. I always keep it in my head that I'm not creating life, I'm not creating or anything, but simply doing something that clears my head. I don't feel that, by drawing, I am trying to imitate Allah, since I know by far that I could never create what he has.

And, whenever I feel like I'm doing something that may be haraam, I can feel it. With art, I don't. Many times, when I feel like my head is filled with abstract imagery and static, drawing things out and then looking at them helps me realize what's wrong or what I'm thinking. It's expression, and oftentimes, the humans and animals I draw do not symbolize life or creation at all, but only a concept.

Intention is a big part in deciding whether what you have done is a sin or not.. my intention was to express, not to create. Am I sinning?

That's the way I see it so far, and I have yet to see someone comment on the difference between expressing and creating.

What about coloring? o_O