The Qur'an says: To Allah belong the most beautiful names. [7:180] In a sahih hadith we read: 'Allah is beautiful and loves beauty.'1 Now these aren't statements about feelings, impressions or sentimentality, they're statements about the very nature of the Divine Reality! Imam al-Munawi comments upon Allah's beauty (jamal): 'He is the possessor of absolute and perfect Beauty. From this Beauty,…