Why does Islam prohibit depictions of living things, apart from Flora?
Drawing living creatures, including making statues, or carving, is prohibited because it will maybe cause the Muslims to lose their faith to Allah and compare Him to other Gods. This is the greatest sin of all. Realize it or not, sometimes we do worshiped a drawing, photo, or statue because its greatness, its awesomeness, its subject of drawing, or any positive quality of it. And also, some artists, because of his or her arrogance, draw living creatures to compare his or her creation to Allah’s creation. This is strictly not allowed, because all worship is only for Him, and he is the Everything, nothing could possibly weigh against Him. Drawing nudity, symbols from other religion, drawing something to worship, and drawing in aim to evaluate with Allah is forbidden when the artist did it on purpose. The level of the sin depends, and the highest level of sin holds for drawing Gods from other religion. Creating statue in any form is forbidden, but the level of the sin itself depends on th
