Caravans Quote by Ibn Arabi

“Know that among the special qualities of the spirits (arwah) is whenever they touch anything life flows into it. This is why the Samiri…

— Ibn Arabi

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

— Ibn Arabi

Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is…

— Ibn Arabi

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,…

— Ibn Arabi

“The Names of Allah are endless because they are known by what comes from them, and what comes from them is endless, even though…

— Ibn Arabi

My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.

— Ibn Arabi

“The universe is its own veil on itself and cannot perceive the Truth since it perceives itself. It is continuously in a veil which…

— Ibn Arabi

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

— Ibn Arabi

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…

— Ibn Arabi

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority…

— Ibn Arabi

“Deliver us, O Allah, from the Sea of Names.”

— Ibn Arabi

“Isa brought the dead to life because he is the Divine Spirit, and bringing to life belongs to Allah. The breath which 'Isa has…

— Ibn Arabi