Allahs Beautiful Names #20 Allah Loves Beauty – Al Jameel

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

divine.

divine.