Question No. 3032 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

What Is Beauty?

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Please explain:
What is the meaning of beauty?

Subject category: Theology and Creed Theology and creed

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Beauty is a manifestation of the Real and a testament to God’s act of creation, perceived through the heart’s hidden senses. It offers a taste of the encounter with the Real and points the way to the highest destination. Beauty is not something grasped by the intellect; it arises from the heart’s innermost, unseen realms.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

Beauty is a particular kind of knowing from beyond the veil; the beauty of unveiling is a ray from the sun of the blessed Name al-Jamīl. Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Real, and the work of the Maker and Creator is revealed to the understanding hearts. Beauty is a sense among the heart’s hidden senses.

Beauty is a taste of the sublime delight of beholding the Real.

Beauty is a signpost pointing to the highest destination.

Beauty is the attraction of the centre of all attractions upon the innermost depths of the human heart.

Beauty is a special sign and message from God, the All-Knowing. Outward beauty arises from hidden, secret realities and is a kind of enigma of existence.

Beauty belongs to the realm beyond understanding, to one of the regions of the human heart’s innermost core. In truth, beauty cannot be grasped; among the levels of human perception, it belongs to a particular realm of the unseen.

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What Is Beauty?

The essence and first answer at a glance (60-word summary)

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

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