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From: rached@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rached Zantout)
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Subject: Re: can men wear gold?
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Date: 31 May 91 13:28:06 GMT
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In islam, it is totally forbidden for men to wear Gold or Silk. This was
mentioned in a hadith that I don't recall now but if asked to I could
provide with the reference.
As far as the pictures of the prophet (PBUH) and of Ali (RAA) this has 
no proof that those are their pictures. Drawing a picture of something
that has (rouh) spirit in it (e.g. animals, humanbeings). So it is
impossible that somebody from the companions of the prophet or those who
have seen him to draw him unless he was a non-muslim which we cannot
take from him things that are related to our religion. Those drawings
are useless and they are harmfull, since by accepting those drawings we
will open the way for future generations to begin WORSHIPING those
pictures (like the picture of Jesus andf the cross).

-- 
"I bear witness that there is only one god, and that Muhammad is his
messenger"