Just to remove a harmful or dangerous object from a road is to give in charity to all humanity

Those with a more theological bent preferred to cite the saying of the Prophet, “God is beautiful, and He loves beauty.” They understood both beauty and love in terms of the axiom of Tawhid, “There is no god but God.” If God is beautiful, then there is nothing truly beautiful but God. And if God is loving, then no one truly loves but he.

I was a Hidden Treasure, and I loved to be recognized, so I created the creatures to recognize Me.” QURAN

A bit of reflection on God’s love for beauty leads to the conclusion that he loves himself before all else. God as the one true lover perceives his own true beauty and loves it eternally. As for the universe, God loves it because, by loving himself, he loves everything demanded by his beauty and mercy, and that includes an infinity of creaturely possibilities.

God loves the way things are because “He made beautiful everything He created” (Quran 32:7). All things are lovable because they make his beauty manifest. Each thing plays its own harmonious role in the infinite web of relationships that the Quran calls God’s “signs.” The signs in turn display the characteristics of what it calls God’s “most beautiful names.”