Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation. Ibn Arabi More Quotes by Ibn Arabi More Quotes From Ibn Arabi How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? Ibn Arabi chained desire heart My heart can take on any form: Ibn Arabi tables idols heart Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance. Ibn Arabi ignorance matter missing Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another. Ibn Arabi elude-you matter reality God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. Ibn Arabi dream sleep animal I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith. Ibn Arabi may love-is believe The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light Ibn Arabi light ignorance darkness Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart. Ibn Arabi islamic wisdom heart If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer Ibn Arabi answers doe rooms There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion. Ibn Arabi form accepting heart When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same. Ibn Arabi know-yourself knows It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature. Ibn Arabi unseen eye faces I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. Ibn Arabi unions knights spiritual My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith. Ibn Arabi spiritual christian book Your personal nature seeks its paradise. Ibn Arabi paradise Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love. Ibn Arabi lord desire I follow the Way of Love, Ibn Arabi way-of-love path way None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover Ibn Arabi beloved lovers eye You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself Ibn Arabi veils have-faith sight My creed is LOVE; Ibn Arabi gazelles belief way
