There is a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad that says: "Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty." A common feature of Islamic art is the covering of surfaces covered with geometric patterns.

explicitly prohibits images of Allah, Muhammad and all the major prophets of the Christian and Jewish traditions. More widely, Islamic tradition has discouraged the figurative depiction of living ...

from cinema to painting, is deemed blasphemous. According to Islamic scholars, the prophet Muhammad preached that he was simply a man, a messenger of the word of Allah or god, not to be revered ...