What is Beauty?
Mohammad Mubashir Raza Gohari says, 'Assalamu Alaikum'
Mohammad Mubashir from Rajhastan, India asks:
What is the soul's relation with beauty?
Please clarify it.
Actually, the soul doesn't have anything to do with beauty.
True beauty belongs to God.
Now, it is important for you to know the definition of beauty.
Normally, you would consider an attractive woman or man to be beautiful, isn't that right?
You consider a good-looking face to be beauty.
You consider attractive facial features to be beauty.
However, this is attractiveness, it is not beauty.
It is attractiveness.
If attractiveness is accompanied with charisma then it would be beauty.
The attractiveness will appeal to your eyes and the charisma will magnetise your heart.
Attractiveness will appeal to your eyes and the charisma will pull your heart; it will make you uncontrollable.
Your emotions will overflow.
What we call 'Ishq (rapturous love)', it is also another name for charisma.
When one witnesses the divine splendour, one feels a strange type of charisma.
Charisma.
The charisma [of the divine splendour] is so strong that one feels as though one's heart is being pulled
like something is pulling you towards God.
That is charisma.
There is a phrase in Urdu: Jazbi-e-Nazar
Something which pulls your eyes towards it.
You understand?
So the charisma pulls your heart.
But if you look at what Koran 55:60 says about beauty, God said, 'Beauty is rewarded with beauty.'
Meaning, there can be no other compensation for beauty other than beauty.
Like that song, 'Give love, give love, give love. Give love and take love.'
You understand?
Koran 55:60 'There is no other compensation for beauty other than beauty.'
So it means the return of beauty is beauty.
What do we understand from this?
It means that if you want to witness the divine splendour
If you want to witness the divine splendour then remember: 'the return of beauty is beauty'.
First, you must beautify yourself and then I [God] will show you my beauty.
This is what this Koranic verse means.
'The return of beauty is beauty.'
God says, 'If you wish to see my beauty then beautify yourself. And then we can witness each other's beauty.'
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi said, 'Every day you wake up and wash your face and apply creams,'
This is written in The Religion of God (Divine Love).
'You wash your face because the world will see it but you never cleanse that which will be seen by God.'
God will not look at your face. God says, 'I do not look at the faces and deeds. I look at the hearts.'
So if you want to come in the sights of the Beautiful One then you have to beautify your heart.
A Haqdith-e-Qudsi states: God is beautiful and he appreciates beauty.
God is beautiful and appreciates beauty.
God is beautiful.
God is [beautiful] and he likes beauty.
So, in order to understand this, you can say: God is beautiful and he is in love with beauty.
Now, it doesn't mean that God - because, commonly, we perceive 'beauty' to be an attractive woman.
A perverted religious cleric would say that it means God likes women.
'God is beautiful and he loves beauty.'
Right?
No, no, no. It means that God himself is very beautiful
and when your heart becomes beautiful then God will automatically love you.
'God is beautiful and he loves beauty.'
God loves beauty; he admires beauty.
But whose beauty does he admire? He admires his own beauty!
When God's beauty settles in your heart and your inner begins to shine with the light of God, then God will begin to love you automatically.
If you are searching for God, you will find him among those in whose hearts God's beauty has settled.
The Mohsineen - those who have reached the stage of witnessing the divine splendour,
those who see God during their worship,
those in whose hearts the beauty of God has settled,
God says, 'You will find me among them.'
Another Hadith-e-Qudsi states: If you intend to be with God then sit in the company of the Fakirs, for there is nothing except God to be obtained from them.
If you want God's company then sit with the Fakir because there is nothing but God there.
Beauty belongs to God alone.
Nobody else is beautiful.
Then what is Prophet Mohammad?
Prophet Mohammad is the mirror of divinity which reflects the Divine Beauty.
What is Prophet Mohammad?
He is the Divine Mirror
Prophet Mohammad is the Divine Mirror in which the divine splendour reflects and blossoms in full bloom.
Prophet Mohammad is the Divine Mirror which reflects the divine splendour.
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