Master, what is the ultimate source of beauty? In spiritual matters, as you begin to perceive beauty, you find that one thing is more beautiful than another. As you advance, you discover new beauties you had not perceived before. Where, ultimately, does all this beauty lead? And how can we tell how much of it we have succeeded in perceiving? That, too, is a question.
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The ultimate source of beauty is its origin and wellspring. God’s blessed Name, al-Jamīl, the Beautiful, is beauty’s ultimate end, its supreme origin and its treasury. When beauty returns to its source, its limits and constraints fall away, and no boundaries can be conceived for it.
From its central treasury—the blessed Name al-Jamīl—beauty descends into the worlds and to those who dwell in them, in a measured and appointed degree.