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This video looks at whether destroying ancient artefacts (artifacts) and shrines is permitted in Islam. Many apologists claim when Islamic State destroy statues and shrines, they are going against the teachings of Islam. So we'll take a look at what Islam's most credible sources have to say on these issues.
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This video is the final part of a 15-part series looking into the actions of the Islamic State militant group and comparing them to the teachings of the Islamic faith based on an honest reading of the Quran, its interpretations by major reputable Muslim scholars, the hadiths (sayings of Mohammed) and other Islamic sources.
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Sources for information in video:
Hadith of Mohamed saying he came to break the idols.
http://www.sunnah.com/muslim/6/358
Hadith of Mohamed smashing idols in the Kaaba after conquest of Mecca
http://www.sunnah.com/bukhari/64/320
Hadith quoting Mohamed saying 'picture makers' will receive the worst punishment from Allah
http://www.sunnah.com/bukhari/77/166
Hadith saying angels won't enter homes that have pictures or dogs in them
http://www.sunnah.com/bukhari/59/128
Hadith by Mohamed commanding Muslims to kill dogs
http://www.sunnah.com/bukhari/59/129
[Arabic] Akhbar al-Zaman by Ali al-Masoudi - page 138 - tells us a caliph once attempted to destroy a pyramid but was unsuccessful.
https://archive.org/stream/Akhbar_823/pdf#page/n151/mode/2up
[Arabic] Egyptian historian Taqi-aldeen Al-Maqrizi volume 1 page 123 (page 392 in webpage format) tells us of Sufi Muslim who tried to destroy Sphinx and only managed to take off his nose.
http://ia801408.us.archive.org/2/items/kitbalmawiwaalit01maqruoft/kitbalmawiwaalit01maqruoft_bw.pdf
Hadith telling us old statues at time of Noah were abandoned, then worshipped later, suggesting idols should not be left even if no one is currently worshipping them as some may in the future.
http://www.sunnah.com/urn/182570
Hadith where Ali quotes Mohamed as saying Muslims should destroys all images and level all graves.
http://www.sunnah.com/muslim/11/120
Hadith where Mohamed bans anything to be built on graves
http://www.sunnah.com/tirmidhi/10/88
[Arabic] Volume 32 of the Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence pages 248-249 speaks about the maximum permitted height of the heap of sand that covers a grave.
https://ia802607.us.archive.org/15/items/mawsoat_fikh_pdfbook_ara/mfk32.pdf
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