Wisdom of Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi

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Wisdom of Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi - New,
'Selected Excerpts'
[A5] Hardback - 320 pages,
by Shaykh ibn al-Arabi,
Selected & Transl. by Mokrane Guezzou,
'Wisdom of the Muslim Scholars Series.'

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Wisdom of Ibn al-Arabi: Selected Excerpts compiles profound spiritual insights from the "Greatest Master" (Ash-Shaykh al-Akbar) Muḥyi al-Din ibn al-ʿArabi, covering metaphysics, Sufism, the heart, and divine knowledge. The work distills his vast, complex, and "ocean without shores" teachings into accessible insights on the Unity of Being, the Perfect Man, and the spiritual path.

Shaykh Muhyi al-Din ibn al-ʿArabi, may Allah be pleased with him, left to posterity a voluminous body of writings which brims with wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual insights. His originality and profundity are uncontested. The complexity of some of the metaphysical concepts he exposits require intellectual rigour. Deciphering the cryptic style of some of his writings requires diligence and patience.

Devotion of one’s entire life is perhaps needed to fully absorb and understand the colossal legacy of this great scholar and saint—this ocean without shores as he has been often described.

The aim of the selected excerpts in the present book is to give to the general reader a flavour of this great man’s wisdom without delving into hair-splitting and very complex theological and metaphysical questions.

About Shaykh ibn al-Arabi :

Ibn al-‘Arabi, the Shaykh al-Akbar, may Allah be pleased with him, the Sultan of the gnostics Muhyiddin Muhammad ibn ‘Ali al-Hatimi at-Ta’i al-Andalusi, was born in Murcia on 17th Ramadan, 560 Hijra, and died in Damascus on 22 Rabi‘ al-Akhar, 638 Hijra.

Shaykh Sayyidi ‘Abd al-Wahhab ash-Sha‘rani, may Allah be pleased with him, wrote a biography of him in his Tabaqat and said, “Among them was the Shaykh, the perfect gnostic, the realised, one of the gnostics of Allah, Sayyidi Muhyiddin Ibn al-‘Arabi, may Allah be pleased with him. The realised among the people of Allah – may He be magnified and exalted! – joined in respecting him in all the knowledges, as his books bear witness to that. None reject him except because of the fineness of his words.”

In the introduction to the book, The Rubies and Jewels in the Clarification of the Beliefs of the Great, by Sayyidi ‘Abd al-Wahhab ash-Sha‘rani, he says:

      “He, Ibn al-‘Arabi, may Allah be pleased with him, followed
   the Book and the Sunna. He said, ‘Whoever casts the balance
       of the shari‘a from his hand for an instant is destroyed.’ He said,
       ‘All that occurs to your mind, Allah ta‘ala is different from that.’
     This is the creed of the Muslim community until the Hour comes.”