Prohibition On Portraits And Drawings Specific To Muslims?
In my personal opinion the statues, drawings or pictures and other art forms are allowed in Islam. I think religious leaders and scholars discouraged them in fear that people illiterate in Islam my use statues and pictures to commit shirk; just like Christians have started doing so. In my opinion no picture or statue should be created of prophets nor can they be created as we do not have any originals. Similarly none can be created for angels or Allah as no one has seen them.