^{Muhammad ibn Abd Allah}

The above is an image of the original purchased in Qum, 1999, by Ingvild Flaskerud.

The text below the image is the shahada or profession of faith: "There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is His messenger."  The medallions in the upper corners contain the words "Allah" (to the right) and "Muhammad" (to the left).

Representations of the Prophet are well known from early on, but are not very common. While some Muslims hold beliefs that it is against Islam to make images of the Prophet, others have more relaxed attitudes, and among Shia Muslims, such pictures are common, and much liked. According to Iranian informants interviewed by Ingvild Flaskerud, such portraits should not be considered "real" portraits of the prophet Muhammad. The artists make these images on the basis of conventional ideas of the character of those personages depicted, in the same way it has been done with Biblical figures in European art.

All of the above, including image, from:

http://www.hf.uib.no/i/religion/popularikonografi/exhib03.html

So, contrary to what we’ve been reading in the mainstream media, it seems many Muslims do own images of their prophet. Perhaps what some Muslims are trying to say is that disrespectful images of him should be banned, similar to the way Holocaust denial is banned in Germany or yelling ‘fire’ in a theater is banned everywhere.