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Thursday, July 2, 2009

The ideas mentioned by Shaykhul Akbar are not simple ideas. Learning him must be under the guidance of someone qualified; lest we thread on deep sea water perilously.

Again, knowing and experiencing is not the same:

It is said Die before you die.
It is said You are part of Divinity
It is said all actions are His

How to approach and appreciate these?
Alhamdullilah, the material sciences have progressed to the extent that we are more receptive to Ibn Arabi’s ideas.

I could think of several possible ways of how to appreciate that all actions are His.
1. the fact that whatever actions we experience are mere perceptions, and that God gave us these perceptions, sight and hearing etc. a classic example would be that only God dictates why humans see 570nm wavelength of light as green and not red etc. Similarly, our perceptions of us throwing a stone is because God allowed us to perceive as such. Although this by no way means that God is accountable for our actions as His Being Supreme and Having Control over All Things holds no bearings whatsoever that is affecting our freedom/will to choose. We are judged ultimately based on what we chose to do, and God does not coerce us into doing.
2. through cause and effect. Eg. when i type, i can do so becaue i have energy, i have energy because i ate, i ate because there was food, there was food because there was photosynthesis, and on and on until God is the First Cause. Allah as Al-Musabbibal Asbab.
3. Just plainly, GOd is the Doer of All Things. we listen and we Obey.
4. Or is it through unveiling of the veil? kashful hijab? Ladunni? About which this is totally up to the discretion of God, His Grace and Mercy.
5. Qada and Qadar?

6. Simply because there is no might other than His? Hauqalah?

or a combination of all these and more?

I really don’t know.
But this question always lingers on:
If Ibn Arabi’s ideas can be understood scientifically, then where is its spiritual value?

So verly likely, if you found his ideas easy to comprehend, then in all likelihood that is just some superficial material way of understanding. (not what was originally intended)

May Allah guide us all,
Let us only study Ibn Arabi when there is a guide.

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