Quotes (http://www.ibnularabifoundation.org/) ت و ن ے ک یا جو ک یا پھر مجھے کہتا ہے کہ یہ تو نے، جو کیا،تو نے کیا کیا۔تو جانتا ہے کہ میرے وجود میں کیا ہے اس کے سوا جو تو نے کیا۔میرا وہ ہر عمل جو تو مجھے کرتے اے میرے خدا! یہ تو نے ہی تو کیا۔،دیکھتا ہے — فتوحات مکیہ از شیخ اکبر محی الدین ابن العربی
O my God, gift me with a heart by which I may be devoted to You in utter poverty, led by yearning and driven by desire, [a heart] whose provision is fear [of You] and whose companion is restlessness, whose aim is [Your] closeness and acceptance! In Your Nearness lies the consummation of those who aim, and the fulfilment of the desire of those who search. — Ibn al-Arabī, Sunday Eve Prayer
The Slave of Passion I am the slave of passion and the slave of the Beloved. The fire of passion burns my heart and the One I love is in my mind. Passion has seized hold of the reins of my heart So wherever I turn my gaze Passion is facing me. — Ibn al-Arabī
I know not I clung to the one I love so passionately, though I know not how, nor do I know for certain who it is that says, "I know not." — Futuhat al-Makkiyya, Traslated by R.W.J. Austin
The knot of persistence and stubborn insistence You must strive to loosen the knot of persistence and stubborn insistence in your heart. — Ibn al-Arabi
God's Mercy embraces everything God appeared to me in the inmost heart of my being and said to me: "Make known to My servants that which you have verified of My generosity... Why do My servants despair of My Mercy when My Mercy embraces everything? — Futuhat al-Makkiyya
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The light of the veils The Real made me contemplate the light of the veils as the star of strong backing rose, and He said to me, “Do you know how many veils I have veiled you with?” “No”, I replied. He said, “With seventy veils. Even if you raise them you will not see Me, and if you do not raise them you will not see Me.” “If you raise them you will see Me and if you do not raise them you will see Me.” “Take care of burning yourself!” “You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.” — Ibn al-Arabī, Contemplation of the Light of the Veils
My heart can take on any form: 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. — Ibn al-Arabī, Turjumān al-Ashwāq
I am in love with no other than myself, I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union ...
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Quotes (http://www.ibnularabifoundation.org/) I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.
— Ibn al-Arabī, The book of veils.
— Shaykh al-Akbar Mohyiddīn Ibn al-Arabī
O lover – whosoever you are The light of Perplexity (hayra) The Real made me contemplate [the light of] perplexity and He said to me, “Return!” But I did not find where to. He said to me, “Approach!” But I did not find where. He said to me, “Stop!” But I did not find where. He said, “Do not withdraw!” And I was perplexed. Then He said to me, “You are you and I am I.” “You are Me and I am you.” “You are not Me and I am not you.” “ I am not you and you are Me.” “You are not you, and you are not other than you.” “The I-ness is one and the He-ness ( huwiyya) is many.” “You are in the He-ness and I am in the I-ness.”
O lover – whosoever you are – know that the veils between you and your beloved – whosoever he might be – are nothing save your halt with things, not the things themselves; as said by the one who hasn’t tasted the flavour of realties. You have halted with things because of the shortcoming of your perception; that is, lack of penetration, expressed as the veil; and the veil is nonexistence and nonexistence is nothingness. Thus there is no veil, If the veils were true, then who got veiled from you, you should also have been in veil from him. — Ibn al-Arabī, The book of veils
From me to myself — Ibn al-Arabī, Contemplation of the Light of Perplexity
The Sigh of Compassion flows The “Sigh of Compassion” Nafas al-Rahman flows through the things of the world like the waters of a river and is unceasingly renewed.
Neither my Heaven nor my Earth contains me "Neither my Heaven nor my Earth contains me, but the heart of my faithful believer contains me," this because the heart is a mirror in which the manifested "Form of God" is at each moment reflected on the scale of the microcosm.
Were I to see myself when I came to myself by myself, secretly or openly, And said, “Greetings” and answered, “At your service”, And if my turning were from me to me, My very “Here I am!” would annihilate me from myself, From my enemies and my trusty friends, From my threat [of punishment] and my surplus [grace], From my delight and my promises [of paradise], From my witnessing and my testimony. What wonderful favour would be mine through myself! Oh I! Return me by me to me until I see my stability. He returned me by me to me from me, and only my qualities subsisted in me. My palm grasped my stick, my staff smote my rock; The river of constellations flowed from it: Twelve heralds! — Ibn al-Arabī,
All praise belongs to God All praise belongs to God, who veiled us by Him-self, for the jealousy that anyone may know his core, He appeared as light (nūr) and then got veiled from sights by His light, He manifested, but got concealed from insights (Basā’ir) by virtue of His manifestation. Thus light entered in light, and self-manifestation got concealed in manifestation. So no sight falls but onto Him; no out-comer comes out but from Him, and no goal-seeker eventually ends up but to Him. So O people of intellect; where is absence or veil? MIA
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I am no one in existence but myself From my incompleteness to my completeness, and from my inclination to my equilibrium From my grandeur to my beauty, and from my splendour to my majesty From my scattering to my gathering, and from my exclusion to my reunion From my baseness to my preciousness, and from my stones to my pearls
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Quotes (http://www.ibnularabifoundation.org/) From my rising to my setting, and from my days to my nights From my luminosity to my darkness, and from my guidance to my straying From my perigee to my apogee, and from the base of my lance to its tip From my waxing to my waning, and from the void of my moon to its crescent From my pursuit to my flight, and from my steed to my gazelle From my breeze to my boughs, and from my boughs to my shade From my shade to my bliss, and from my bliss to my wrath From my wrath to my likeness, and from my likeness to my impossibility From my impossibility to my validity, and from my validity to my deficiency. I am no one in existence but myself — Ibn al-Arabī,
Your Knowledge embraces all that is knowable O my God, Your Knowledge embraces all that is knowable. Your Awareness encompasses the interior [meaning] of all that is understandable. You are sanctified in Your exaltedness from all that is blameable. The spiritual aspirations ascend to You, and the words soar to You. — Ibn al-Arabī,
The Opening Prayer In the name of God, the all-compassionate and most merciful Praise be to God for His bringing the most excellent success! I ask Him for: guidance to follow His Path; inspiration to verify His Reality; a heart certain of His Truth; a mind illumined by the providential awareness of His Precedence; a spirit taken up with ardent desire of Him; a soul at peace from ignorance; an understanding radiating with the flashes of thought and its brilliance; an innermost heart flourishing with the spring-waters of illumination and its pure nectar; speech strewn upon the carpet of expansion and its clarification; thought exalted above the apparent finery of the ephemeral and its embellishment; insight able to witness the secret mystery of Being in the setting of creation and its rising; senses maintained in full health by the constant coursing of [Divine] refreshment; a natural constitution purified from the dominion of lack and its consequences; a disposition completely responsive to the reins of Divine Law and its authority; a [state at each] instant conducive to His uniting and His distinguishing. And may blessings and peace be upon Muhammad and his family and his company, and the successors who came after him and the community of those who follow his path – may they be greeted with peace. The One desired is God, both in Being and in witnessing, and He is the One intended, without any [possibility of] denial or disclaimer. For He suffices me, the most beneficent Trustee. — Ibn al-Arabī
Prayer I ask of You, O my God, an eloquent tongue and truthful speech; appropriate understanding and an innermost centre of taste; a truly receptive heart and a discerning mind; radiant thought and insatiable yearning; eyes that are lowered [before You] and a burning desire. Grant me a hand of [total] empowerment and a strength that brooks no resistance; a soul at peace and supple limbs for obeying You. Purify me that I may come to You, and grant that I may be brought before You.
I wonder at a lover in conceit of his merits She said: "I wonder at a lover in conceit of his merits, walking proudly among flowers in a garden." I replied: "Do not wonder at what you see, for, indeed, you have beheld yourself in the mirror of a man!" — Ibn al-Arabī,
— Ibn al-Arabī,
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Quotes (http://www.ibnularabifoundation.org/) "The reason for my withdrawal from and repudiation of the army, as well as my following this path [of Sufism] and my propensity toward it was [as follows]: When I went out in the company of my Lord (makhdumi), the [Almohad] Prince, Abu Bakr Yusuf b. 'Abd al-Mu'min b. Ali, to the great mosque in Cordoba,15 and I saw [the Prince] bowing and prostrating and humbly abasing himself in supplication to God (To Him belong Might and Majesty!), an idea (khatir) stirred in me [so that] I said to myself: 'If this, the ruler of the land, is so humbly submissive and does this before God (Be He exalted! To Him belong Might and Majesty!), then this world is worth nothing.' So I left him on that very day, and never saw him again. There- after, I followed this path."
“O My servants, all of you go hungry except the one whom I feed. Ask Me for food, and I shall feed you.
— Ibn al-Arabī,
“O My servants, if all of you – first and last, man and jinn – were like the one among you with the most devout heart, that would add nothing to My kingdom.
Hadith Qudsi (28) God, ever mighty and majestic is He, says: “O child of Adam, as long as you beseech Me and hope for Me, I shall forgive you whatever you have done, without minding in the slightest. “ O child of Adam, were your sins to reach up to the clouds of Heaven and then you asked forgiveness of Me, I should forgive you, without minding in the slightest. “O child of Adam, even if you were to bring Me enough sins to ¥ll the earth, but then you met Me without associating anything with Me, I should bring to you the selfsame measure of forgiveness.” — Ibn al-Arabī, 101 Hadith Qudsi
“O My servants, all of you go naked except the one whom I clothe. Ask Me for clothing, and I shall clothe you. “O My servants, you transgress by day and night, but I forgive all misdeeds. Ask forgiveness of Me, and I shall forgive you. “O My servants, harming Me is beyond you, so you cannot harm Me; and benefiting Me is beyond you, so you cannot benefit Me.
“O My servants, if all of you – first and last, man and jinn – were like the one among you with the most ungodly heart, that would take nothing away from My kingdom. “O My servants, if all of you – first and last, man and jinn – were to stand on the same level and address Me with your requests, and if I were to give each one what he had requested, that would not diminish what is with Me, any more than a needle diminishes the sea when it enters it. “O My servants, it is solely your deeds that I take account of, and it is by virtue of them that I will repay you. So let him who ¥nds good, praise God, and let him who ¥nds other than that, hold none but himself to blame.”
Hadith Qudsi (10)
— Ibn al-Arabī, 101 Hadith Qudsi
God, ever mighty and majestic is He, says: “I am with My servant when he remembers Me and when his lips move in mention of Me.” — Ibn al-Arabī, 101 Hadith Qudsi
Hadith Qudsi (1) “O My servants, I have forbidden injustice to Myself and I have made it forbidden amongst you. So be not unjust to one another. “O My servants, all of you go astray except the one whom I guide. Ask guidance of Me, and I shall guide you. MIA Page 4 of 5
When I write a book When I write a book, nothing is abrogated nor is it in my own words, for me to change it. I do not comprehend it, nor do i reject it; but it is obscure and unknown to me. — Poem by Ibn al-Arabi in the margin of Veliyuddin 51 Translated by Denis McAuley
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Quotes (http://www.ibnularabifoundation.org/) The seeker continues to say with every breath "My lord, increase me in knowledge" as long as the sphere of the universe turns in His breath So that he attempts to make his moment his/His breath ... The moment lengthens or shortens in relation to the presence of its master. The moment of some is an hour of others a day, a week, a month, a year, or once in a lifetime and some have no moment at all. — Ibn al-Arabī
He saw the lightning in the east He saw the lightning in the east and he longed for the east; but if it had flashed in the west, he would have longed for the west. My desire is for the lightning and its gleam, not for the places and the earth. — Ibn al-Arabī, Tarjuman al-ashwaq
He and you You are not He But you are He You see Him in the essence of things Boundless and limited. — Ibn al-Arabī, Fusus al-Hikam
When my Beloved appears, With what eye do I see Him? with His eye, not with mine, For none sees Him except Himself.
Belief and Truth The Truth which resides in the belief is that whose form the heart encompasses, what reveals itself to the heart to be known. The eye sees nothing but the Truth of its belief, and there is no secret about the variety of beliefs Whoever binds Him [in a belief] denies Him in any belief other than that in which he has bound Him And affirms Him in the belief in which he bound Him in His manifestation,But whoever liberates Him from binding, denies Him not at all But affirms Him in every image into which He transforms Himself He/he gives him/Him of Himself/himself in accordance with the image in which He/he appears to him/Him Infinitely, since the forms of manifestation have no end at which to stop And, likewise, knowledge of Allah has no limit for the knower at which he might stop Rather, the knower asks in every moment for an increase in his knowledge of Him "My lord, increase me in knowledge" [Qur'an 20:116] "My lord, increase me in knowledge" "My lord, increase me in knowledge" So it continues, perpetually, from both sides.
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— Ibn al-Arabī, Fusus al-Hikam
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