Prophet Muhammad
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Prophet Muhammad
An 18th-century dark blue and white royal banner, used by the court on religious occasions, shows the sword Zulfikar, which the archangel Gabriel is believed to have given to the Prophet Muhammad, who passed it to his son-in-law Sayidina Ali. In the context of controversy over Islam's rules about depictions of the Prophet Muhammad and, more generally, the human figure, Ms. Maxwell said, this was a way to show that the Islamic courts in Southeast Asia sanctioned images of humans, if in distorted form.  An 18th-century dark blue and white royal banner, used by the court on religious occasions, shows the sword Zulfikar, which the archangel Gabriel is believed to have given to the Prophet Muhammad, who passed it to his son-in-law Sayidina Ali.