“The Prophet said, “God is beautiful, and He loves beauty.” With regard to tawḥīd, this means that nothing is truly beautiful but God, and that no one truly loves but God. Nonetheless, God created human beings in a beautiful form: He formed you and made beautiful your forms (40:64). Our forms are beautiful because God created us in His own “form,” which is to say that He in-formed us with the Most Beautiful Names. God loves beauty; so He loves the beauty of human forms, which is to say that He loves the manifestation of His own Most Beautiful Names in creation.”
“‘God is beautiful, and He loves beauty.’ Clearly the Prophet, the last of the prophets and the “most praiseworthy” of God’s creatures, is the embodiment of human virtue and beauty.”
“By following the Prophet, they can actualize the Most Beautiful Names within their own character, and it is the beauty of the reflection of these Names in human beings that God loves. It is of course also true that God loves all human beings, and indeed all creatures. He made beautiful all that He created (32:7), and He loves the beautiful.”
~ The Qur’an and Sufism by William C. Chittick, in The Study Quran ~
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