Ammar Alshukry – Allahs Beautiful Names #20 Allah Loves Beauty – Al Jameel
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The speaker discusses the importance of beauty in Allah's existence and its impact on his actions and actions. They mention various verses of Allah's language, including his language, which describes the physical beauty of the face of Allah as a flower, and his language, which describes the importance of beauty in his actions and actions. The speaker also discusses the importance of community in shaping beauty's existence and its impact on one's behavior.
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I have a question for you. Can a
person be religious and still care about beauty?
The prophet
once said, whoever has an atom's weight of
pride will not enter paradise. And a man
said, but
a man likes to have nice clothes and
nice shoes.
And said,
Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty. Pride
is to reject the truth and look down
upon people. Hadith is reported by a Muslim.
And so the prophet
is correcting the idea that taking pride in
your appearance, dressing well, that that is the
type of pride that is wrong. Instead, he's
telling us that Allah
is Jameel, Jameel Lun. It indicates that it's
the name of Allah and
he loves beauty. So what does Allah being
beautiful mean? Number 1, he's beautiful in his
essence.
We're taught that the delights of paradise with
everything that paradise has of of pleasures and
spouses and finery and luxury and food, that
the greatest pleasure is the pleasure of seeing
the face of Allah
Allah All of the bounties and all of
the grace, all of the sights and the
smells and the taste will be forgotten without
a trace as if frozen in time and
space
when you see his face.
May Allah
grant you and I the pleasure of seeing
his face in The
second is he's beautiful in his actions and
legislations,
and he's beautiful in his creation as well.
It's interesting that some would dismiss beauty like
it's something that's shallow that religious people shouldn't
preoccupy themselves with. When Allah
mentions beauty as an objective for why he
created certain things. So for example, in Surah
Al Nah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Surah
Al Nahlis also called the Surah of blessings,
the Surah of the bee. Allah describes
grazing livestock right on that first page of
Surah Al Nahal, and he says that
that this grazing livestock you eat from it
and it provides you with warmth,
but Allah
says
That you also benefit from the beauty that
they bring, the beauty that you witness
when you send them out to pasture these
animals and when they come back. You know,
for I'm from a small farming village in
Sudan. May
Allah bring it peace, stability, and tranquility,
and prosperity in all of our lands.
And every morning, young shepherds would take dozens
of goats
leading them out of the village to pasture.
And like clockwork, near the end of the
day, a little bit before sunset, that herd
would be coming back in large groups walking
through the streets of our village until they
would settle in their pens for the evening.
And I'll be honest, I'm not a farmer
and not really
never really appreciated that site, but I reflected
on this verse.
That you enjoy the beauty of them when
they come back from pasture and when they
go out. I said to them, is this
something that you really enjoy? And they told
me, they said, what do you mean?
When these goats and sheep are coming back
home to a chorus of footsteps and bleats,
it's a beautiful sight, They've eaten and they're
coming back happy. It fills them with enjoyment.
And 2 verses later, Allah says,
Allah says, and horses and mules and donkeys
for you to ride. Obviously, that's the function
of these animals, but Allah
also says,
and adornment.
It beautifies people to be riding these majestic
animals. So it's not just a matter of
function, but also a matter of fashion. And
Allah a few verses later, he says, it
is he who subjected the sea for you
to eat from it tender meat,
and to extract from it ornaments which you
wear. So of the reasons that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala subjugated the sea for us is
to be able to eat food from the
sea, of course,
but also he mentioned something else, which is
ornaments. That of the reasons why the sea
was subjected was for us to be able
to bring out ornaments of the ocean. Pearls
and coral as Allah says,
from both of them emerge pearls and coral.
In fact, Allah
says, even about the stars. In Surat Al
Mulk, he says,
We have adorned, we've beautified
the nearest heaven with stars. But my point
here is that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala calls
the placement of the stars in the nearest
heaven, zina,
beautification and adornment,
which teaches us
that of the purpose of the stars and
the placement of the stars is that when
you look up at the night sky that
it takes your breath away. Something else to
pay attention to is that beauty can inspire
faith. Have you ever walked into a beautiful
masjid
and had your faith increase?
I want you to comment with the name
of your city and the most beautiful masjid
that you have in your city. We're gonna
have a list of the most beautiful masjid
in the world
Faith can not only increase because of beauty,
but in fact, it can be kindled because
of beauty. In Surat Al Nam, Allah
describes for us the correspondence that's happening between
the queen of Sheba and Suleyman alaihis salam.
She's in Yemen, he's in Palestine.
And when she comes
to Suleyman's palace, it is said to her,
enter into the palace.
And when she enters, she sees what's in
front of her water. And so Allah
says that she raised
or she uncovered her shins to be able
to walk through the water.
And when she's told,
It is
glass.
She says
immediately,
She said, my lord, I have wronged myself
and I have accepted Islam
with to the lord of the worlds. The
beauty of the glass, the water, the palace
was enough to inspire faith in her heart.
But it's also important to remember as we
continue to build beautiful
in many towns and cities
that she says
with
which to me seems to indicate the importance
of community. We can build the most beautiful
but when no one welcomes you when you
arrive, shows care for you while you're there,
or ask about you when you're absent, then
even the most beautiful messages will not be
able to attract people to return.
And the last thing that I wanna mention
about beauty is that beauty in and of
itself is proof of Allah's
existence. For if it was simply an evolutionary
mechanism, then how do we explain our appreciation
of beauty?
Have you ever seen a dog stunned by
the sunset,
or a bear marveling mountains capped by snow,
or a camel enamored by a starry desert
night, or a bird breathless by the scenes
it sees below.
And if you've never seen a cat gaze
fondly into the eyes of another with resolution
impressed, then maybe there's something special in our
souls that is not by evolution addressed. Because
if we're animals just like all others, then
why are our souls so easily captured by
beautiful moments and beautiful people by beautiful things
enraptured?
Maybe
the beautiful made us
and made our love of beauty a sign
that we believe in him and realize that
beauty
points
to the
divine.