Quotes About Ibn Arabi

Who anyway can define the borderline between gnosis and poetic knowledge? The two modes are not identical, and yet they interpenetrate one another. Are we to call the gnosis of Novalis, Blake, and Shelley a knowledge that is not poetic? In domesticating the Sufis in our imagination, Corbin renders Ibn 1 Arabi and Suhrawardi as a Blakl· and a Shelley whose precursor is not Milton but the Koran.

The relative existence is - to use a favorite metaphor of Ibn Arabi - the Absolute Existence as reflected in the mirror of relative determinations.

el espíritu se corporeiza y el cuerpo se espiritualiza», este intermundo que también podríamos llamar, según las tradiciones a las que nos refiramos, aquel de los cuerpos sutiles o de los cuerpos gloriosos, Henry Corbin lo fue a buscar por su parte en el islamismo iraní, en la mística sufí y chií, desde el andaluz Ibn Arabi hasta Sohravardi en Persia.

That is why the theopathic maxim of the disciples of Ibn Arabi was not Ana'l Haqq "I am God " (Hallaj) , but Ana sirr al-l Haqq, "I am the secret of God," that is to say, the secret of love that makes His divinity dependent on me, because the hidden Treasure "yearned to be known" and it was necessary that beings exist in order that He might be known and know Himself.

As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'.

Tal como dice Ibn Arabi: La absoluta existencia es la fuente de toda existencia.