Best Beautiful Islamic Muslim Jewelry in silver and gold

Unlike most other religious traditions - generally speaking Muslims don't use pictures to inspire religious devotion. Historically there are exceptions to this rule - but the Islamic jewelry I found online followed the general custum. The reason is that in the Old Testament and the Koran both the injunction is 'You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.' (Deuteronomy 5:8).

This is usually interpreted - in Christianity and Judaism - to only apply to images of the sacred, for fear the image would be taken for the divine reality (which is blasphemy). In Islam, scholars say, the same idea is behind the prohibition to make images. For instance: The Hadith warns such people and says that those who believe that these images are living creatures and will save them on the Day of Judgement from the wrath of the Almighty, shall actually be asked to inject life in them on that Day to redeem them of their punishment. This demand, of course, will only be meant to add insult to injury. source

But of course, tradition goes as it will and scientific research need not influence it. The tradition has become to honor God (aka Allah) through text and calligraphy. This is why most of the religious and spiritual jewelry on this page consists of the latter.

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