Contemplations of the Holy Mysteries by Ibn 'Arabi

Author:Ibn 'Arabi ['Arabi, Ibn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781905937028
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Published: 2009-04-29T14:45:08+00:00

contemplation 6

him and that I am not capable of resurrecting him as I originally created him; and denies the gathering [of the Day of Judgement]

and the resurrection, and does not believe in the [reality] of the pool of the Prophet,31 or in My Balance and My Straight Path, or that he has to see Me, or in My Fire and My Garden, maintaining that these are [only allegorical] images and [symbolic] expressions whose meaning goes beyond the apparent.”

“By My Power and My Majesty! They will be returned, and then they will know who has followed the straight path and who has been guided. We shall take revenge on those [who denied]

in the abode of shame and torment as I informed them in My books.”

“They denied Me and sanctioned their passions. They let themselves be seduced by vanities, and their demons played with them.

‘You and what you serve besides God will be fuel for Hell to which you will come.’”32

“Stay within My limit and meditate on My book, for it is the radiant light, which contains the hidden secret of My truth. My path stretches over My ¥re, so woe betide whoever denies Me!”

Then He said to me, “O My servant! Have I veiled your heart from Me and from My knowledge and from acting freely in My kingdom and My angelic realm, [veiling you] in your world through the persisting of your body and your [need for] nourishment and your ability to act freely with people of your kind?

Do you not know that the gnostics as they are today, will be like that tomorrow, with their bodies in the gardens of paradise and their hearts in the presence of the Compassionate? ‘Every group is happy with what it has’ and each has a known drink. They will be returned and then they will know. It is as if they have not heard

‘the day the leg will be revealed and they will be summoned to prostrate …’.”33

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Notes

1 The ma†la¡ (or it can also be read as mu††ala¡) refers to everything which the servant comes to know through mystical intuition or unveiling ( kashf ) without having tasted or experienced it himself ( dhawq) and without it corresponding to his state, since if such knowledge was due to his state, it would not be ma†la¡. By this means, the saint reveals the stations of the prophets and this is the contemplation called ma†la¡. (IS)

The term ma†la¡, the name of the place having the root †–l–¡, has, among others, the following meanings: dawn, sunrise, point of departure, point of ascent, elevation, ladder, lookout, watchtower.

It also refers to the spiritual station of the Day of Resurrection and may be understood as mystical perception occurring in an elevated state of consciousness.

The term comes from a saying of the Prophet: “No verse of the Quran has come down without it having an exterior [meaning] and an interior [meaning] and in every letter there is a limit ( ¢add) and in every limit there is a place of ascension ( mu††ala¡).

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