Reflection of Nature of Aesthetics in View of Quran and Hadiths

Beauty is among the fundamental issues that has always captivated human mind. Aesthetics is a science formed to correctly understand beauty. The origin of this science is in humans’ quest for beauty and what humanity has gained from change in views about this branch of knowledge is the variety of arts styles, philosophical views, geometric patterns and other human tastes. The Holy Quran and Hadiths of the Infallible (AS), as the main Islamic sources, have presented a complete framework for comprehending the nature of aesthetics. This framework has led to the creation of outstanding works of Islamic art. Hence, this research investigates the framework of aesthetics in view of the Quran and Hadiths. It first tries to reflect the nature of aesthetics from the Quranic viewpoint and based on that offer a general framework for comprehending beauty. To that aim, content analysis has been used for presenting the framework. The results of the research showed that the Quran’s aesthetic pattern has a hierarchical nature which begins with objective beauties, goes on to objective-subjective beauties and finally reaches subjective beauties.