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What is the meaning of Allah's Name "Al-Jamil (The Beautiful)," what are its effects on the universe and humanity, how can it be inferred, what are its faith-based implications, and how do we live in accordance with it?

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The meaning of "Allah is beautiful" is that all of His commands, glory be to Him, are good and beautiful. He possesses the most beautiful names and attributes of beauty and perfection. Among the effects of the beauty of His actions is the creation of mankind in the best of forms. Believing in this attribute entails acting upon what Allah loves, which is permissible adornment, for "Indeed, Allah is beautiful and loves beauty." Ibn al-Qayyim explained that His beauty, glory be to Him, encompasses His Essence, attributes, actions, and names, and the beauty of creation is but one of the effects of His beauty, for He is Absolute Beauty. The beauty of the Essence cannot be comprehended, and the people of Paradise will forget their bliss upon seeing Him. As for the beauty of the names, all of them are beautiful and indicative of praise, glory, and beauty. The beauty of the attributes is all perfection and glory, and the beauty of the actions is all goodness, mercy, justice, and wisdom.

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