The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 26 · Page 268

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Arabic

فبدره يطلع من غربه

وضوءه يغرب في شرقه

فكل مخلوق به هائم

وكلنا نهلك في حقه

(الجمال وكمال الخلق)

ورد في الخبر الصحيح في صحيح مسلم عن رسول الله ص أنه قال: «إن الله جميل يحب الجمال». وهو تعالى صانع العالم، وأوجده على صورته.

فالعالم كله في غاية الجمال، ما فيه شيء من القبح، بل قد جمع الله له الحسن كله والجمال؛ فليس في الإمكان أجمل ولا أبدع ولا أحسن من العالم. ولو أوجد ما أوجد إلى ما لا يتناهى، فهو مثل لما أوجد؛ لأن الحسن الإلهي والجمال قد حازه وظهر به.

فإنه كما قال تعالى: ﴿أَعْطى كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلْقَهُ﴾، فهو جماله؛ إذ لو نقص منه شيء، لنزل عن درجة كمال خلقه فكان قبيحا. ﴿ثم هدى﴾ [طه: ٥٠]؛ أي بين ذٰلك لنا بقوله: ﴿أَعْطى كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلْقَهُ﴾:

و لما رأينا الحق في صورة البشر

علمنا بأن العقل فيه على خطر

فمن قيد الحق المبين بعقله

ولم يطلق التقييد ما عنده خبر

English

His full moon rises from his west,

And his light sets within his east.

Every creature is bewildered in love through him,

And all of us perish for his sake.

(Beauty and the Perfection of Creation)

An authentic report in Muslim's Ṣaḥīḥ transmits that the Messenger of God, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said, ‘God is beautiful and loves beauty.’ He, exalted is He, is the world's Maker, who brought it into existence upon His form.

The whole world is thus at the utmost beauty, containing nothing ugly. God gathered all loveliness and beauty for it. Nothing more beautiful, wondrous, or lovely than the world is possible. Were He to bring into existence what He brought into existence without end, it would be like what He has brought into existence, for it has attained and manifested divine loveliness and beauty.

As He, exalted is He, said, ‘He gave every thing its creation’: this is its beauty. Were anything missing from it, it would fall below the degree of its creation's perfection and be ugly. ‘Then guided’ [Ṭā Hā 20:50]: that is, He clarified this for us through His saying, ‘He gave every thing its creation’:

When we saw the Real in the human form,

We knew intellect was in peril concerning Him.

Whoever restricts the manifest Real through his intellect

Without releasing the restriction knows nothing of the affair.

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