Ibn Arabi Quotes on God
Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) developed the most systematic philosophical Sufism in the Meccan Revelations (al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya) and the more concentrated Bezels of Wisdom (Fusus al-Hikam). The doctrine of the unity of being (wahdat al-wujud) holds that there is in reality only one being — the divine reality — of which the manifold of creatures is the manifestation through the divine names, with each created thing serving as the locus through which a particular divine name is given the reality it requires. The framework integrates Quranic revelation, Neoplatonic philosophical inheritance, and the practical mystical itinerary of the Sufi path, and shaped the subsequent intellectual and devotional life of the Islamic world from al-Andalus through Persia and the Ottoman lands.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ibn Arabi:
“My heart can take on any form: a meadow for gazelles, a cloister for monks, a temple for idols, the Kaaba of the pilgrim, the tablets of the Torah, the scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; wherever its caravan turns along the way, that is my belief.”
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Attributed to Ibn Arabi:
“He who knows himself knows his Lord.”
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Attributed to Ibn Arabi:
“When my Beloved appears, with what eye do I see Him? With His eye, not with mine, for none sees Him except Himself.”
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Attributed to Ibn Arabi:
“There is no being but God.”
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Attributed to Ibn Arabi:
“The Real is the inward of every outward and the outward of every inward.”
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“I take love as my religion wherever its caravans lead, for love is my religion and my faith.”
أدين بدين الحب أنَّى توجهتْ ركائبه، فالحب ديني وإيماني,