Ibn Arabi Quotes

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• 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…
• While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
• 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…
• 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…
• Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as…
• You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself
• 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 ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he…
• My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both…
• I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
• Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would…
• 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…
• How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
• Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
• God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
• 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…
• 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…

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