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Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi 1165 -1240AD

IBN ARABI

Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhammad b. 'Ali Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers. Known as Muhyiddin (the Revivifier of Religion) and the Shaykh al-Akbar (the Greatest Master), he was born in 1165 AD into the Moorish culture of Andalusian Spain, the centre of an extraordinary flourishing and cross-fertilization of Jewish, Christian and Islamic thought, through which the major scientific and philosophical works of antiquity were transmitted to Northern Europe. Ibn 'Arabi's spiritual attainments were evident from an early age, and he was renowned for his great visionary capacity as well as being a superlative teacher. He travelled extensively in the Islamic world and died in Damascus in 1240 AD.

He wrote over 350 works including the Fusūs al-Hikam, an exposition of the inner meaning of the wisdom of the prophets in the Judaic/ Christian/ Islamic line, and the Futūhāt al-Makkiyya, a vast encyclopaedia of spiritual knowledge which unites and distinguishes the three strands of tradition, reason and mystical insight. In his Diwān and Tarjumān al-Ashwāq he also wrote some of the finest poetry in the Arabic language. These extensive writings provide a beautiful exposition of the Unity of Being, the single and indivisible reality which simultaneously transcends and is manifested in all the images of the world. Ibn 'Arabi shows how Man, in perfection, is the complete image of this reality and how those who truly know their essential self, know God.

Firmly rooted in the Quran, his work is universal, accepting that each person has a unique path to the truth, which unites all paths in itself. He has profoundly influenced the development of Islam since his time, as well as significant aspects of the philosophy and literature of the West. His wisdom has much to offer us in the modern world in terms of understanding what it means to be human.

If the believer understood the meaning of the saying 'the colour of the water is the colour of the receptacle', he would admit the validity of all beliefs and he would recognise God in every form and every object of faith.

Ibn 'Arabi, Fusūs al-Hikam

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

Ibn 'Arabi, Futūhāt al-Makkiyya

Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers. Ibn 'Arabi was born in Murcia, Al-Andalus, in 1165 and his writings had an immense impact throughout the Islamic world and beyond. The universal ideas underlying his thought are of immediate relevance today.

The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society was founded in 1977 to promote a greater understanding of the work of Ibn 'Arabi and his followers. It is an international association with its headquarters in Oxford England and a branch in Berkeley California.

http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/index.html

UK: mias.uk@ibnarabisociety.org P.O. Box 892, Oxford, OX2 7XL, UK +44 1865 511963


USA: mias.usa@ibnarabisociety.org P.O. Box 45, Berkeley, CA 94701-0045, USA

The movement which is the existence of the universe is the movement of love.

Ibn 'Arabi, Fusūs al-Hikam

 


Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi is unquestionably one of the most profound and remarkable figures in the history of world spirituality.

Known as "the Greatest Master" (al-Shaykh al-Akbar), he led an extraordinary inner and outer life. He traveled huge distances, from his native Spain to Syria and Turkey, writing over 350 books on the
mystical path.

Ibn 'Arabi's writings are founded on a totally harmonious vision of Reality, integrating all apparent differences without destroying their truths. They are singularly appropriate and needed in the world of today.


How can I know You when You are the Inwardly Hidden who is not known?

How can I not know You when You are the Outwardly Manifest, making Yourself known to me in every thing?


He lived at a time of great cultural and spiritual flowering in the West, in the Jewish and Christian traditions as much as in the Muslim
world.

Ibn 'Arabi in the West

Ibn 'Arabi was born in Murcia in southern Spain on 27 July 1165 (17 Ramadan 560 AH), at a time when the lands of al-Andalus had already
been under Muslim rule for over 450 years.

At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Seville, which remained his home for the next 27 years.

When he was about 16, he experienced a strong calling to turn to God and entered into a retreat. He tells us that he came to the spiritual path through a vision of Jesus, Moses and Muhammad, the prophets of the three major religions stemming from Abraham. As a consequence of this retreat, he met the famous philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes) in
Cordoba.

Ibn 'Arabi began to study the Quran and Hadith in earnest, and soon came under the instruction of his first spiritual master, al-'Uryani.

During his youth Ibn 'Arabi kept company with many spiritual teachers, men and women, in Seville and throughout al-Andalus; later he wrote
about them in his Ruh al-quds (Epistle of the Spirit of Holiness).

He had many mystical experiences, visions and revelations, including a meeting with Khidr, the immortal guide who imparts hidden mysteries.....

It is reported that the Messenger of God said: "God is beautiful and He loves beauty".
It is God who made the world and brought it into existence. The entire universe is therefore supremely beautiful. There is nothing ugly in it. On the contrary, in it God has brought together all perfection and all beauty.
Futuhat al-Makkiyya


In 1190 he had his great vision of all the prophets, from the time of Adam onwards; a theme which found its most complete expression in his book Fusus al-Hikam (Settings of the Wisdoms).

In 1193 he left the Iberian Peninsula and travelled to Tunis to visit Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Mahdawi, one of Abu Madyan's pupils. While there, Ibn 'Arabi entered "God's Vast Earth" or the "Earth of Reality", an intelligible, spiritual realm in which the real, effective adoration of God takes place.

On his return to Seville he began his writing career, with the Mashahid al-asrar (Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries) being one of the very first books he composed.

He had the power of meeting with the spirit of any of the prophets or saints of the past whom he chose. He was able to do this in three ways: sometimes he made their spirit descend into this world, where he perceived them in a subtle corporeal form similar to the one they had
when alive;......

In 1197 he experienced a dramatic spiritual ascension in the city of Fez, at the end of which he wrote in his Kitab al-Isra' (Book of the Night-Journey):

I gained in this night-journey the true meanings of all the Divine Names, and I saw that they all referred to One Named and One essential Reality. This Named was my very object of contemplation; that Reality
was my own being.



Every other writer acts according to the dictates of their own choice or free-will, or according to the knowledge which is being promulgated. He puts in what he wants and leaves out what he wants; or he puts in what this knowledge gives him, once the question under consideration has become clear to him.

We, on the other hand, write in the following fashion: the heart clings devotedly to the door of the Divine Presence, watchful for what unfolds when the door is opened, in poverty and need, empty of all knowledge. Whatever comes to it from behind that curtain, the heart hastens to obey and sets it down according to the measure appointed in
the divine command.

Futuhat al-Makkiyya

In what I have written, I have never had a set purpose, as other writers. Flashes of divine inspiration used to come upon me and almost overwhelm me, so that I could only put them from my mind by committing to paper what they revealed to me.

Futuhat al-Makkiyya





From.."The One Alone" Ibn Arabi


Know that He is never in anything, nor is anything in Him. He
is neither inside nor outside of anything. None can see Him,
whether with the eyes of the head or with the inner eye; nor
can any conceive Him with senses, knowledge, mind,
intelligence or imagination. Only He can see Himself; only He
can conceive Himself. None can know Him; only He can know
Himself. He sees Himself by Himself; He conceives Himself by
Himself; He knows Himself by Himself. None other than He
can see Him. None other than He can know Him. That which
hides Him is His oneness. None but Himself can hide Him. The
veil that hides Him is His own being.

He is not within you; nor are you in Him. He does not exclude
you, nor are you excluded from Him. When you are addressed
as you, do not think that you exist, with an essence and
qualities and attributes; for you never existed, nor do exist, nor
ever will exist. You have not entered into Him, nor He into
you. Without being, your essence is with Him and in Him.
Without having any identity, you are Him and He is you. If you
know yourself as nothing, then you truly know your Lord.
Otherwise, you truly know Him not.


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Salman Bashier

Radical Vision and Universal Religion in Ibn al-'Arabi

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July, 2007

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Elias Amidon

Crossing Borders: The Question of Human Belonging and Ibn 'Arabi's Theory of Perpetual Transformation

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June, 2007

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Jane Clark

"As if you saw Him"; vision and best action (ihsān) in Ibn 'Arabi's thought

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Building an Akbarian Tradition for the New Millenium: Toward a New Theology of Difference

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By Way of Essential Meaning

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Naught but Love

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James Morris "Whoever knows himself..." in the Futuhat"

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Stephen Hirtenstein Spiritual Life, Living Spirit - Ibn 'Arabi's Meeting with Jesus and John

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Cecilia Twinch You Are My Mirror

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Caner Dagli The Levels of the Soul and the Levels of Time

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