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Listen, O Dearly Beloved

7/29/2013

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"What follows is not a poem in the Arabic, but part of a chapter from the Kitab al-Tajalliyat. However, since it was translated in the form of a poem by Henry Corbin in Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, it has become deservedly famous." -Ibn 'Arabi Society
Listen, O dearly beloved!
I am the reality of the world, the centre of the circumference,
I am the parts and the whole.
I am the will established between Heaven and Earth,
I have created perception in you only in order to be the
object of my perception.
If then you perceive me, you perceive yourself.
But you cannot perceive me through yourself,
It is through my eyes that you see me and see yourself,
Through your eyes you cannot see me.

Dearly beloved!
I have called you so often and you have not heard me
I have shown myself to you so often and you have not seen me.
I have made myself fragrance so often, and you have not smelled me.
Savorous food, and you have not tasted me.
Why can you not reach me through the object you touch
Or breathe me through sweet perfumes?
Why do you not see me? Why do you not hear me?
Why? Why? Why?
Ibn 'Arabi
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A Garden Among the Flames

3/6/2013

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O Marvel,
a garden among the flames!

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 Qur'án.

I profess the religion of love;
wherever its caravan turns along the way,
that is the belief,
the faith I keep.

Ibn Arabi
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The Validity of all Faiths

3/13/2012

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If the believer understood the meaning of the saying

'The color of the water is the color of the receptacle,'

He would admit the validity of all beliefs  and

He would recognize God in every form and every object of faith.

Ibn 'Arabi
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What Your Heart Truly Desires

2/25/2012

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"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 'Arabi
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