Faith

Many religions depend on images to teach their religion but Islam does not. These religions share out booklets and pictures of highly idolized, very beautiful artificial pictures to seduce people to believe. It is easy to “fall in love” with a beautiful picture but the facts concerning the belief might not be strong enough to solicit faith in people while images can. Muslims believe in an unseen God. They do not need images to believe but the proof is all around us in God’s creations. What can be more beautiful than a snowflake, a single leaf, the amazing ant? God’s mastery and majesty is in nature all around us.
Allah (swt) says in the Qur'an:
"Verily in that are Signs for those who are wise.”
[Al-Qur’an 30:24]
It is easy to fall in love with a beautiful face but to love someone for their character and qualities is much more deep and difficult. To love and belief in an unseen God is the ultimate belief. How many times have our parents or someone in authority said” Trust me”?
It is for this reasons that images of God, prophets and holy saints are not allowed. Because this would take away from the simple yet amazing signs of creation around us.
We also would not need to have “heroes” or be “fans” of famous people. We put our faith and trust in God. These people cannot solve our problems and give us sustenance but rather distract us from the real and one true God. He is the one who we should be fans of. The One in whom we put all our faith and trust without having a fake image in front of us.
Imagery comes to us when we listen to the Qur'an and it melodious recitation brings to mind pictures when tell a thousand words.