This book is an attempt to shed some light on the aspects of the
life of a great Muslim scholar who devoted himself to knowledge and
wisdom, and Allah has granted him an ample portion and a prodigious
magnitude, and he in turn broadcasted this in his boundless
numerous books, to enlighten the whole world, east and west. By
studying the biography of this great knower, we want to explore
some of these sciences and knowledge bequeathed to us by Allah on
his hands, that made scientists and philosophers sometimes
astounded and sometimes pondering and often unable to dive into the
seas of his words to extract the jewels and pearls therein.
Muhammad Ibn al-Arabi dedicated his entire life to learning and
knowledge, but he did not follow the ordinary way of thought and
consideration, such as other scientists do, rather, he followed the
path of piety that is the only obligation imposed by Allah the
Almighty to take care of educating His servants, because the
Almighty said: (fear Allah and Allah teaches you 2:2282]), and He
said: (O ye who believe if ye fear Allah, He will grant you a
criterion 8:28]), to judge between right and wrong. Thus those who
accomplished piousness they obtained the great divine knowledge
which is the true guiding light. This knowledge obtained by the
appropriate pious is the divine unveiling knowledge of taste (ilm
al-zawq) attained through the spirits of prophets and angels who
irrigate from the sea of eternal knowledge, the Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him, a knowledge of certainty realized by insight and
vitiated by no doubt ever, unlike other theoretical knowledge based
on reasoning that can be true but is often erroneous. The span
between these two kinds of knowledge is like the span between
tasting honey and reading about it in books or hearing its
description from someone who has tasted; the latter may probably
approach the truth after great effort and trouble, yet he may never
be sure, but that who tastes receives his necessary knowledge with
uttering certainty, just by tasting and without any effort or
fatigue, yet with delight and ecstasy, providing the prosperity of
perception; for one might take honey in his sick mouth and he would
not like its taste. Although he was attached with many of master
counselors in his early life, and he was raised up on their hands,
the true repentance of the Greatest Sheikh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi,
may Allah be pleased with him, was on the hands of Jesus son of
Mary, peace be upon him, who guided him to the right path at the
beginning of his youth and he took care of all his affairs. After
that, he used to connect with other prophets and messenger,
including the Messenger of Allah Muhammad, peace be upon them all.
In fact, he wrote his many books by direct inspiration from Allah
brought down to him by those high spirits, and the last one of his
many hundreds of such books is the unique book of the bezels of
wisdom (Fusus al-Hikam), that was handed down to him by Prophet
Muhammad, peace be upon him, in a promising vision he saw in
Damascus in the last ten days of the month of Muharram in the year
627 Hijri, so he conveyed the book out to the world exactly as it
was given to him, no more and no less; that book that spread like
fire amongst the scholars with now hundreds of annotations and it
was translated into many languages, despite its highly symbolic
language and the many equivocal phrases that can be accessed only
by those with enlightened heart and sharp hearing.
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