The AlMaghrib Podcast
No Animal Has Ever Stopped to Watch a Sunset, Here's Why That Matters
1 hr 11 minJul 11, 20266K views
In this episode, Shaykh Fahad Tasleem sits down with us to explore one of the most overlooked ideas in our tradition: beauty. We usually treat beauty as a matter of personal taste, something that changes from person to person. But what if that's wrong? What if beauty is objective, woven into the fabric of creation itself, and pointing to something far greater?
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In this episode
- 0:00 Beauty Truth and the Divine
- 0:47 The Phenomenology of Beauty
- 2:47 Objective vs Subjective Beauty
- 3:53 Beauty Humility and Arrogance
- 4:51 Natural Beauty and Human Nature
- 7:20 How Nature Shapes the Self
- 11:36 Architecture and Disconnection
- 15:06 How Environment Shapes Reality
- 18:51 Art and Purpose in Islam
- 20:53 Quranic Beauty and Poetry
- 26:43 Reconnecting With Nature
- 34:36 Prayer Time and the Cosmos
- 40:24 The Argument of Beauty for God
- 43:55 Technology's Faustian Bargain
- 1:01:43 Digital Revolution and Loneliness
About the show
Long conversations with scholars, imams and the people building Muslim communities, hosted by Sh. Ammar AlShukry. New episodes on YouTube.
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