|  One quality acquired from Islam's morality is the high sense of art & esthetic. The Quranic depictions of Paradise are pictures of highest quality, finest taste, & stunning grandeur.
Muslims had this sense of art in their hearts, which is reflected in their work, & thus the lands they ruled became the world's most modern & select regions.
When Islam spread outward in all directions, it brought properity & development with it.
Muslims took civilization wherever they went. They designed on effective water purification system for the drinking water requirements of a Tunisian town.
Water was stilled & purified in 1 large basins & then brought into the town by an enclosed pipe system. Only centuries later did Europeans began to concern themselves with such things.
Muslim engineers in Syria designed a fantastic system of watermills to deliver water to the cities.
Tha capital of the Islamic world, Baghdad, was the world's most splendid & modern city. Urban planning & architecture were stunning. A traveler visiting Baghdad wrote the following:
--All the exquisite neighborhoods covered with parks, gardens, villas & beautiful promenade are filled with bazaars & finally built mosques & baths. They stretch for miles on both sides of the glittering river.--
Andalusia (Muslim Spain), another spectacular center of the Islamic world, gradually became Europe's most modern & advanced county. Its capital city of Cordoba was full of amazing beauty with its clean, well-lit streets, libraries, hospitals, and palaces.
In the same era, such great European cities as Paris & London were filthy, dark, and neglected. As a result, European Christians visiting Cordoba were amazed & dazzled by the city's splendor, culture, and art.
In Islam: Empire of Faith, Historian Sheila Blair of Boston College describe Cordoba's splendor with the following words:
--The city of Cordoba in th 9th & 10th centuries was one of the biggest & most exciting in Europe. We have descriptions by people coming & seeing all of these flowers everywhere this open streets, this wonderful light coming down. Northern cities were dark. Cordoba had running water. People lived in big houses. In contrast, in Paris, people lived in shacks by the side of the river.--
Evidence:
-Muslims who spread Islamic civilization throughout the world erected glorious mosques & other builing in those lands.
- The Cordoba Mosque has an impressive beauty.
"God commands Justice & doing good & giving to relatives. And He forbids indecency & doing wrong & tyranny. He warns you so that hopefully you will pay heed." (Quran 16:90)
- Granada's al-Hambra palace, constructed by Muslims, is one of Islam's most impressive architectural works.
Say:"My Lord has commanded justice. Stand and face Him in every mosque & call on Him, making your religion His. As He originater you, so you will return." (Quran 7:29)
One of the few remaining examples of Cordoba's grandeur is the Catholic cathedral located in the city center. Originally it was a mosque of an esthetic style that captivated the minds of those who entered it.
Christians explorers who came to Cordoba were deeply affected by this splendor.
In the 10th century, a Saxon nun by the name of Hrotsvitha described Cordoba as the ornament of the the world.
One of Andalusia's most spectacular buildings was the Alhambra palace, which was decorated with stunning examples of Islamic esthetics & art.
Every detail reflected the same fine taste of Islam's higher spirit. It gardens were full of fountains powered by a system based on gravity.
The Muslims who built is were inspired by the Quranin depiction of Paradise.
Here r some verses about Paradise:
"They will have preordained provision: sweet fruits & high honor in Gardens of Delight in couches face to face; a cup from a flowing spring passing round among them, as white as driven snow, delicious to those who drink, which has no headache in it & does not leave them stupefied. (Quran, 37:41-47)
"[They will be] shaded by spreading branches. (Quran 55:48)
"They will be reclining on couched lined with rich brocade, the fruits of the Gardens hanging close to hand.: (Quran 55:48)
[Garden of Paradise are] of deep viridian green (Quran 55:64)
"[They are] on sumptuous woven couches, reclining them face to face. (Quran 56:15-16)
"[they are] Amid thornless lote-treesand fruit-laden acacias. (Quran 56:28-29)
And wide-spreading shade & outpouring water & fruits in abundance never failing, unrestricted. And[they are] on elevated couches. (Quran 56:30-34)
They will have Garden of Eden with rivers flowing under them. They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold & wear green garments made of finest silk & rich brocade, reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent reward! What a wonderful repose! (Quran 18:31)
As well as architecture, Muslims had an advanced quality of & taste in clothing compared with Europe. THeir textile shops produced unprecedentedly beautiful fabrics, which made European clothing appear quite ordinary.
For this reason, Muslim clothing & fabrics became symbols of luxury & status among Europeans. The church's most valuable holy objects were kept in Muslim-made fabrics.
Indeed, some clothes in Christian paintings made during the Middle Agd had Islamic writing on them. In fact, Muslims dictated fashion to the world.
Europe received other practices of civilizations from Muslims, such as bathing & using soap. Islamic civilization also contributed greatly to the development of European music.
For example, string instruments widely used in the Islamic world were later adopted by Europeans. The guitar, a basic instrument of the Western music, is an adaptation of the classical ut.
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