The Seals of Wisdom by Ibn Arabi

Author:Ibn Arabi [Arabi, Ibn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780886950101
Amazon: 0886950104
Goodreads: 532998
Published: 2017-05-12T18:29:59+00:00

Notes to Chapter 15:

1. As he was born more than five centuries before the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and is still alive, waiting to descend.

2. The story is found is the Qur’an 20:75-95, where as-Samiri convinces the tribe of Israel to cast their ornaments into the fire out of which he brought the figure of a Calf which lowed, and which they worshipped. He told Musa, “I beheld what they did not behold, and I seized a handful of dust from the messenger’s track and cast it into the thing.”

3. With dad, qabda.

4. With sad, qabsa.

5. Qur’an 19:17.

6. Qur’an 4:171, “The Messiah, ‘Isa son of Maryam, was only the Messenger of Allah and His Word, which He cast into Maryam, and a Spirit from Him.”

7. Qur’an 3:49; 5:110.

8.Qur’an 3:49.

9.Qur’an 5:110.

10. The tax paid by the People of the Book to the Muslim State.

11.Qur’an 9:29.

12. i.e. the dead person can speak and answer him. This not simply causing the dead limbs to move of their own accord.

13. Qur’an 5:17, 5:72.

14. Ruh Allah.

15. See Qur’an 3:45, 4:171.

16. Qur’an 14:171.

17. Qur’an 19:30.

18. See Qur’an 18:109, “Say: ‘If all the sea was ink to write down the Words of my Lord, it would run out long before the Words of my Lord ran out,’ even if We were to bring the same amount of ink again.”

19. Al-jawhar al-hayulani.

20. Qur’an 38:69, “I had no knowledge of the Highest Assembly when they disputed.” It can also mean mutual rivalry.

21. Qur’an 15:28, “I am creating a mortal (bashar).”

22. “The exalted” are the angels who wander in love and those who are near, like Jibril and 74

the angels of the Throne.

23. “Or are you one of the exalted?” 38:75.

24. As the Prophet said.

25. See Qur’an 65:12, “It is Allah who created the seven heavens and of earth their like, the Command descending down through all of them.”

26. Sura 80.

27. Musa in Qur’an 20:10; 27:7. Refers to empirical knowledge, but he found unveiling in the form of the Burning Bush.

28. By standing behind the veil or seeking other-than-Him.

29. On the Last Day.

30. Qur’an 5:116.

31. To slaveness rather than lordship.

32. (ma qulta = I did not say).

33. Literally in the Arabic, “I was against them a witness.”

34. This is the end of what ‘Isa said in this verse.

35. On the Day of Gathering.

36. According to the commentator, the leaven is the predisposition for the arrival in the presence of Allah. The dough is the clay of his substance.

37. All used in this verse.

38. i.e. with knowledge, weeping, and maintaining adab.

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