this disclosure and the development of aesthetic understanding is
directly related to faith and occasion of his mind won by his faith.
Maturation of a person's faith and his or her longing for paradise,
increases the pleasure one gets from the beauties by the will of
Allah.
Allah has informed us about the beauty and the aesthetic
understanding of the environment in heaven which is promised to
sincere believers in the Qur'an. As the verses inform us, Almighty
Allah equipped paradise with blessings which the human soul is loves
and is mostly affected by. Allah created people in "beautiful
appearance", in an instinct to enjoy all kinds of beauty, aesthetics
and art.
A believer takes great pleasure when he sees similar environments in
paradise as places in this world and gives thanks to Allah for these
blessings.
The human spirit takes indescribable pleasure from the beauties of
the nature, numerous different types of flowers, unique view of
green leaves, and landscapes. Natural beauty and the greenery of
lands are the wonderful blessings of paradise. It is antoher beauty
that it is placed nearby the mansions and shadows, inside gardens
and springs. Here are some other characteristics of paradise from
information in the Quran:
Paradise has a pleasant climate which is informed by another
verse"... neither burning sun nor bitter cold... " (Surat al-Insan,
13) that never discomforts people. Heat that makes people sweat
or swelter doesn't belongs to there. Allah will place the
believers"into cool, refreshing shade." in the paradise. (Surat
an-Nisa', 57)
"Refreshing shade" expression in this verse signs that all media and
conditions in paradise would be willed by people and would make
people comfortable and be prepared to comfort people, provide a real
sense of satisfaction for the human soul. Everything and every
place in paradise would be "after one's own heart" for a Muslim.
One of the natural beauties that Allah mostly gave news in the
verses related to paradise is the"outpouring water"(s) (Surat
al-Waqi'a, 31) Human spirit takes great pleasure from water,
especially flowing water. A lake, stream, waterfall or a river
falling through the forest gives great pleasure to people. Images
and sounds of flowing water give peace and comfort to the human
heart. Images and sounds of water falling from high above gives
pleasure to the soul. Aim of the palaces, mansions or ponds which
are made in the gardens of the mansions, pools and fountains or the
natural rivers all comes from this aesthetic longing.
Another beauty that awakes beautiful feelings in the human soul are
sounds. Reason why the music has a very important place in every era
is the deep effect that makes in the human soul. The human soul
takes great enthusiasm, excitement and pleasure from beautiful human
voices, as well as a ripple of flowing water.
Beautiful morality gives the most pleasure to human spirit. Morals
of the Qur'an is the synthesis of all of the beautiful features
which Allah informs that He is pleased with. These lofty morals
include such things as sacrifice, being considerate, ccompassion,
loyalty, honesty, justice, loving, beautiful candor, docility,
peace, brotherhood, tolerance, and understanding.
For example, people love and respect a person who gives his or her
meal to poor people although he is himself in need. Similarly
honesty is one of the occasions that directs the spirit to positive
feelings. Because people feel love and intimacy for the people who
are honest and have beautiful morals. Allah created the human soul
to have love and affection for beautiful morals.
Single responsibility of a person for all of the beauties that Allah
gives him as appealing to the human spirit is properly giving
thanks to Allah and to live a life which Allah is pleased with. The
beautiful results which believers take on the day of judgement and
the punishment which unbelievers will face is informed in a verse
as:
What is the Garden promised to those who guard against evil like? It
has rivers flowing under it and its foodstuffs and cool shade never
fail. That is the final fate of those who guard against evil. But the
final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire." (Surat ar-Rad, 35)
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