God created Adam in His image, none of us share the same exact visage, and His image is pertaining to Adam having certain attributes that reflect the divine on a finite scale (such as sight, hearing, and the capacity for intellect or choice) but without sharing the exact nature or form of God. God sees and we see, does that mean our sight is comparable to His? And beauty is not exclusive to that which attracts women.
All theologians, scholars dedicated to studying Bible and understand God, all agree that God is Truth, Goodness, &
Beauty. Beauty as understood by people is reflection of that quality as evident in Song of Salomon. If God made all creation to his design, then attractive people are made closer to God.
That is your opinion. To God, and so, to anything that matters at all, it is repentance itself, not the appearance of the one who repents. If a human takes precedence for appearance instead of faith, it is merely the human's fault
For what do I have to repent for? Because God made me ugly fully knowing that people will hate me because of that? If you recive none of God's love, why should you give it back? If somehow this is all merely human fault, then God is still responsible for it, as omnipotent being, he decided to reward evil, superficial people, yet still give them easy option for redemption?
It's evident of what Augustine wrote that God predestinates some people to Hell for sake of his own glory, but he forgot to add that those people are ugly and their life already sucks.
Voluntary celibacy is not glorified and that is all. Islam does not negate the rightful needs of men like other religions do. And I reiterate that an easy life drives people to the opposite of faith and an easy life in itself is the hallmark of the faithless, no matter if they profess to be faithful; this path is burdensome and covered in thorns, to have an easy life is to have your mundane whims and desires fulfilled and to have a faithful life is to have your mundane whims and desires subdued or neglected, apart from what is rightful. It leads one to become satisfied with this life, to be unreflective, to not ponder on existence and the afterlife. Satisfaction with this life kills faith... frustration and suffering can lead to it.
Islam doesn't even recognize the struggle of celibacy, let alone seeing any virtue in it while it will moralize you about "lowering your gaze". Comedic that it prescribes you to starve untill you forget about your human instincts, except for hunger while you're incelibate.
If remaining faith while having easy life is, by your accord, that burdensome and covered in thorns, then all those people are all the more praiseworthy in God's eyes. They resist temptation every day for the sake of God when fufillment is in reach of a hand. What makes your suffering special then? If you can only suffer without reaching satisfaction, faith then is merely another cope to distract you from suffering, not a choice or burden.
A person doesn't need to suffer as much as we do to have the right to be enlightened, but it tends to be the people you're describing are not sincere in their faith and God will judge them accordingly, they can't spend their entire life rejecting God and then reapproach him towards the end with a mild inclination, just praying the minimum will not expiate their sins, they'll receive what is due for all the time they spent in debauchery
You know that only God can have an insight if people are sincere in their faith or not, unless you're saint (are you?), humans can't avoid sin or whatever you make call it, to test it you would need to read their thoughts. Who do you know if they not sincerely regrett their sins, or if you only see them sining, because that's your prespective? It's up to God to decided, not you.
practicing some semi-secular version of Islam won't open the way to heaven to anyone. But if repentance is sincere, if they truly regret their "easy life", who are we to judge?
Are you a member of Sufi Tariqa? If not, the one mere practices
semi-secular version of Islam, because sharia is a law regulating external, secular behaviour that muslim are judged by, so yes, they're struggles with faith are considered valid by God, not to mention that islamic immigrants are the most militant religious group outhere.
And "my imams" are either in prison, under heavy surveillance or killed in war.
Doesn't concern me if anything bad happens to them, it's not my fault or doing, if you're looking for one responsible look at God.
Finally, I want you to consider this: the core of religion is in the metaphysical, in the transcendence of physicality, of carnal existence, of flesh and its vices, of the bestial life the average disbelieving human leads. And the better a human fits in this world, which in our time would mean being physically attractive, the less inclined to faith and piety, the more inclined to that animalistic, degenerate yet pleasurable, unthinking, frictionless existence he is. That is the "ethos" of worshipping shallow beauty and its depraved rewards: being faithless (and so does the "telos" of the faithless tend to be having an easy life as I described), beholden to flesh only, not the opposite, reducing religious faith to its aspects of beauty-glorifying is a moronically superficial interpretation
The physical is manifestation of metaphysical. The dualism between physical and spiritual is a result cartesian dualism as matter and non-matter being metaphysical opposed to each other.There is no dualism, everything is emanation from divine. You're corporeal existance is a result of your spiritual being. If this was false, you couldn't possibly claim that there is correspondence between heaven and earth.
You couldn't claim that your present existance would affect your afterlife, or that there is a providence governing the world, or even that God exist in this world, because if physical and metaphysical were seperate planes, they coudn't possibly interact with each other, so beauty can only exist here, because it exist at the higher level, thus ugliness can only be deficiency of such quality.
Transcendence isn't some sort of spiritual self-improvment, it's about using your physical condition to reunite with God and as an incel - me and you - are suffering unnecessarily for the same deal that sex-haver have, better yet Islam and Christianity say that married couples will be rejoined in Paradise and what do you get as a lonely male?
