Golden pearls of Ibn Al Arabi

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“How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?”

“None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover”

Ibn Al Arabi

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Dear Readers,

 

This week we are proud to bring you timeless Golden Pearls of Ibn Al Arbi, an Arab Andalusian Scholar of Islam, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher. He is renowned by practitioners of Sufism as “the greatest master” and also as a great saint.  I hope you’ll find his Golden Pearls of Wisdom as Inspiring as Millions across the world do.

 

 

 

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Know that whenever something permeates another, it is assumed into the other.
That which permeates, the agent, is disguised by that which is permeated, the object.
In this case, the object is the manifest [universe], and the agent is the Unmanifest, the Hidden.

On Him alone we depend for everything; our dependence on other things is in reality dependence on Him, for they are nothing but His appearances.

The eye perceives nothing but Him; only He is to be known.
We are His; by Him we exist, and by
Him we are governed; and we are, at all times and in all states, in His presence.

 

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Therefore, know your self, who you are, what is your identity. … Consider well in what way you are Haqq, and in what way Khalq, as being separate, other. He who knows himself knows his Lord; … indeed, He is his very identity and reality.

 

 

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If men knew themselves, they would know God; and if they really knew God, they would be satisfied with Him and would think of Him alone.

 

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“Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.”

 

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As for the theorists and thinkers, and the scholastic theologians, with their talk about the soul and its properties, none of them have grasped the Reality; such speculation can never grasp it. He who seeks to know the Reality through theoretical speculation s flogging a dead horse; … for he who seeks to know It by any means other than the one proper to It, will never grasp It.

 

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I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.”

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“Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.”

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“My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka’ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.”

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“The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light”

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“Your personal nature seeks its paradise.”

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 I love listening to his poetry especially from the collection of Ensemble Ibn Arabi – with its beautiful melodies. The voice of the signer touches cords of your heart. I hope you’ll the music below healing and soothing in your journey to recovery and well-being. 

“Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.”

 

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Islam and Eating Disorders founded in 2012 – run by Maha Khan, the blog creates awareness of Eating Disorders in the Muslim world, offers information and support for sufferers and their loved ones.

2 Comments

  1. Thank you for sharing these great reminders for inclusiveness Maha. May we always be open to the wisdom and love of other paths so that we might meet in fields of love ( as Rumi wrote!).

    blessings, Brad

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