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- The HOLLY QURAN does NOT specify any symbols for ISLAM !!!
- As we know today, huge no. of Muslim majority population,countries etc. using crescent,objects,live creatures on their flags.Let's go as far as we can to see why ? Crescents,moons are used since antiquity and it's known to humanity.Oldest found one is on Akkadian seal before 2300 BC (Mesopotamia) and means god of Nanna.Phoenicians 800 BC etc.
Don't forget that inside Ka'ba was statua of HUBAL representing moon wich is destroyed by First Muslims.
Also used by :
- Greeks (representing goddess Diana) ; Carthaginians ( rep. goddess Tanit ) Persian's,old Slavic pagans,in Hinduism (Shiva),Heraldic and all over the places as Central Asia,Siberia,middle east etc. Some examples before ISLAM :
532 BC (old city) Suren-Pahlav flag,Persia [ 248 BC - 224 AD ]
Achaemenid Dynasty,Persia [ 559 BC-330 BC ]
"sin" "moon god" by Shamash and Ishtar [ 2100 BC ]
The Mesopotamian Ziggurat,temple of "moon god"
Sign of "sin-moon god"[2000 BC] Nabodilus (last king,Babylon) [550BC]
Assyrians crescent and moon glyph (Anatolia,Karum) [ 1900 BC ]
Ancient Persian moon-goddess (Kusuh)
Egyptian moon-goddes-Nannar[2100BC]
yerah-moon-god-of-Canaan (Hazor,Palestine)...
Arsacide Dynasty [ 64-428 ]
Derafsh e Mehr,Persia flag [224-651]
"triple-goddess" Neopagans symbol"
Heptalite Empire (White Huns) [around 500 ]
Illiricum (Illirya) symbol before coming Ottomans and Islam on their teritory found [1340.]
This is just few examples of so many why crescent and star are NOT Islamic symbol and should not be in use on their flags or anywhere by Muslims all over the Earth.
- Muhammad a.s. also removed "eagle" from Quraish flag.
So,after all people before and after Islam seems kept their custom's or most of them adopted.The huge impact on Crescent and star took by Ottoman Empire,when the Turks counquered Constantinopole (Instanbul) in 1453.and adopted city flag and symbol(there is 2 version Selim "dream" and star means 5 muslim pillars*** but just speculations,not verifable).Becouse they ruled for hundreds of years over the Muslim and European countries it's understanable how the symbols of this empire became linked to the peoples mind with the faith of ISLAM as a whole.
Many Muslims till today reject using this symbols as symbol of Islam.
The FAITH of ISLAM has historicly had NO symbol and it's essentally an ancient pagan icon.
Allah dz.s. knows the best !
About 400 years after death of Muhammad a.s. it's started to use symbols again. Let's see now the flags with majority Muslim populations :
Ghaznavid Sultanate [1031-1040 ]
Seljuc-Turks flags (Iran) [1040-1157 ]
Mamluks flag-Egypt [ 1250-1517 ]
Mongol-Ilkhanid (Persia) [ 1256-1338 ]
Kayihan Khanat [ 1326 ]
Mughal Empire (India) [ ? ]
Khorazme Khanate [ ? ]
....Probably there is a lot more.....
Bandera de Khiva (Uzbek) [ 1511-1920 ]
Khanate of Kanat Baluchistan [ 1733-1794 ]
Bukhara Emirate [ 1734-1794 ]
Flag of First Saudi State [1744-1818 ]
Flag of Yemen [ 1728-1967 ]
Emirate of Ha'il [ 1835-1920 ]
Flag of Egypt Eyalet [ 1826-1867 ]
Flag of Muhammad Ali,Egypt [1867-1881 ]
Flag of Egypt [ 1882 ]
Flag of Bosnia [1831-1832 ]
Flag of Bosnia [1878 ]
Flag of Herzegovina [ 1870 ]
Egypt [ 1922-1953 ]
Flag of Dhala (UAE) [ 1959-1963 ]
Federation of South Arabia [ 1962-1967 ]
Sultanate Fadhli (UAE+Yemen) [1963 ]
and more....
There is a lot more but let see today with Muslim majority population :
Pakistan Bangladesh Egyp t I ran Turkey Algeria Morrocco Afghanistan Malaysia Uzbekistan
Syria Kazakhstan Niger Burkina Faso Senegal Tunisia Somalia Azerbaijan Tajikistan
Libya Jordan Kyrgystan Turkmenistan Albania Mauritania Kosovo Comoros Bosnia-Herzegovina
Djibuti Brunei Maldives Northern Cyprus
This topic is followed by : QUR'AN , Hadthit and during Muhammad a.s time as example! Becouse I know majority Muslim populations using symbols,live creatures,objects there is NO offense to anyone!
-I am still concerne about this and have few questions as :
Does Ulammah allowed or found some permission for this to the Islamic Guideless ?
and
Saudi Arabia flag
Why they using sword,I know that representing justice and first Saudi King Abdul-Aziz bin Saud !???
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