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volume 1 of the Meccan Revelations by the Greatest Master Muhyiedin Ibn Arabi, traslation and commentary by Mohamed Haj Yousef (The translation is published in electronics as a first draft.) Please check it at amazon here:
The Meccan Revelations is considered the most important book in Islamic mysticism. Ibn al-Árabî started working on this book in Mecca in the year 598 AH / 1202 AD; thus from here it takes its name, where he received the immense knowledge that he had broadcasted in this huge book from a spirit he calls the ‘passing young’ (al-fatâ al-fâàt) whom he met at the Kaaba. But it took him around thirty years to finish it in Damascus in the year 629 AH / 1232 AD, and then he rewrote it again between 632/1235 and 636/1239, just two years before he passed away. 1. The First Part is a foreword (khuţbah) to the book, but which can also be considered an abstract summary of Ibn al-Árabî's view of the world. He divided this foreword into two sections; in the first one he enclosed his spiritual addressing before the Prophet, may Allah have mercy and peace upon him, and his Companions and other prophets who all met in the world of imaginational realm (ăâlam al-mithâl) and whom he saw through a disclosure attended metaphysically in his heart. In this addressing he speaks about the spiritual hierarchy and the origin of spiritual and physical creation. |
COMPLETE CONTENTS of Volume One
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| MAIN CONTENTS | 3 |
| The First Volume of the Meccan Revelation | 5 |
| 1. The First Part of the Meccan Revelations | 7 |
| 1. (Foreword) | 8 |
| 2. (The reality of existence) | 8 |
| 3. (The Muhammadan reality) | 14 |
| 4. (His addressing this spiritual gathering) | 19 |
| 5. (The beginning of spiritual creation) | 23 |
| 6. (The spiritual kingdom) | 28 |
| 7. (The occurrence of the world) | 28 |
| 8. (The origin of the physical existence) | 30 |
| 9. (Concluding his addressing spiritual gathering) | 33 |
| 10. (A letter to his friend Abdul-Aziz al-Mahdawî) | 35 |
| 2. The Second Part of the Meccan Revelations | 53 |
| 1. The First Section: On (the divisions of) Knowledge | 54 |
| 2. The Second Section: On the Interactions | 62 |
| 3. The Third Section: On the States | 72 |
| 4. The Fourth Section: On the Abodes | 79 |
| 5. The Fifth Section: On the Juxtapositions | 93 |
| 6. The Sixth Section: On the Domiciles | 103 |
| 3. The Third Part of the Meccan Revelation | 117 |
| 1. Introduction to the book | 118 |
| 2. (The ranks of science) | 120 |
| 3. The intellectual science | 120 |
| 4. (The science of states) | 121 |
| 5. (The science of secrets) | 121 |
| 6. (The nobility of the science of secrets over other sciences and why we should accept it) | 122 |
| 7. Connection (on the relationship between the science of taste and the views of philosophers) | 127 |
| 8. (The possibility of expressing these sciences) | 129 |
| 9. (How do you know if you are a person of taste) | 130 |
| 10. (Outline of the path) | 130 |
| 11. (The four divisions underlying the path) | 132 |
| 12. (The reasons and their types) | 132 |
| 13. (The motives and their types) | 132 |
| 14. (The ethics and their types) | 132 |
| 15. (The facts and their types) | 133 |
| 16. (States and Domiciles) | 134 |
| 17. (Types of domiciles) | 135 |
| 18. Separation (on the scope of science) | 135 |
| 19. Continuation (on denying the necessity of the science of speaking for the ordinary people) | 136 |
| 20. (The degree of the science of speaking and its necessity for scientists) | 139 |
| 21. (The foundations of the Islamic faith from the Qurãn without the need for the science of speaking) | 140 |
| 22. (A closing word on the science of speaking) | 143 |
| 23. (The levels of faith) | 144 |
| 24. Connection | 144 |
| 25. (The faith of the ordinary) | 144 |
| 26. (The first testimony) | 145 |
| 27. The second testimony | 153 |
| 28. Connection: the Average's and the Novice's faiths | 157 |
| 30. The First Section | 161 |
| 31. On knowing the ‘standing bearer’ by the Western tongue | 161 |
| 32. Subject (1.1): the incident must have a cause | 161 |
| 33. Subject (1.2): the rule of what is never free of incidents | 162 |
| 34. Subject (1.3): endurance and perishing the old | 162 |
| 35. Subject (1.4): latency and appearance | 162 |
| 36. Subject (1.5): revoking the transition of the form and (proving) its self-perishing | 163 |
| 37. Subject (1.6): revoking the incidents that has no beginning | 163 |
| 38. Subject (1.7): oldness | 164 |
| 39. Subject (1.8): it is not a substance | 164 |
| 40. Subject (1.9): it is not an object | 165 |
| 41. Subject (1.10): it is not a form | 165 |
| 42. Subject (1.11): negating directions | 165 |
| 43. Subject (1.12): establishing | 166 |
| 44. Subject (1.13): oneness | 166 |
| 45. Subject (1.14): on seeing | 167 |
| 46. The Second Section | 168 |
| 47. On knowing the ‘necessary borne bearer’ by the Eastern tongue | 169 |
| 48. Subject (2.1): the Ability | 169 |
| 49. Subject (2.2): the Knowledge | 169 |
| 50. Subject (2.3): the Life | 169 |
| 51. Subject (2.4): the Will | 169 |
| 52. Subject (2.5): the incident will | 170 |
| 53. Subject (2.6): will without a place | 170 |
| 54. Subject (2.7): Speaking | 170 |
| 55. Subject (2.8): the oldness (/pre-existence) of the world | 170 |
| 56. Subject (2.9): the Hearing and the Seeing | 171 |
| 57. Subject (2.10): proving the Descriptions | 171 |
| 58. The Third Section | 172 |
| 59. On knowing ‘the creativity and the composing’ by the Shâmî tongue | 172 |
| 60. Subject (3.1): the world is Allah's creation | 172 |
| 61. Subject (3.2): acquisition | 172 |
| 62. Subject (3.3): acquisition is willed by Allah | 173 |
| 63. Subject (3.4): creating the world is not necessary | 174 |
| 64. Subject (3.5): charging with the unbearable | 174 |
| 65. Subject (3.6): hurting the innocent is not unjust with regard to Allah | 174 |
| 66. Subject (3.7): good and ugly | 175 |
| 67. Subject (3.8): the necessity of knowing Allah | 175 |
| 68. Subject (3.9): sending messengers | 175 |
| 69. Subject (3.10): proving sending a particular messenger | 176 |
| 70. The Fourth Section | 176 |
| 71. On knowing ‘the abstraction and arranging’ with the Yemeni tongue | 176 |
| 72. Subject (4.1): restoration | 176 |
| 73. Subject (4.2): the questioning in the grave and its torture | 177 |
| 74. Subject (4.3): the Balance | 177 |
| 75. Subject (4.4): the Path (/Bridge) | 177 |
| 76. Subject (4.5): creating Paradise and Fire | 178 |
| 77. Subject (4.6): the necessity of the leadership | 178 |
| 78. Subject (4.7): the prerequisites of the leader | 178 |
| 79. Subject (4.8): when two leaders conflict | 178 |
| 80. Connection: The faith of the Exclusive People of the people of Allah, between consideration and disclosure | 179 |
| 81. Issue (1): (the limits of the mind) | 179 |
| 82. Issue (2): (no commensurateness between the right and the creatures) | 179 |
| 83. Issue (3): (knowing the absolute) | 181 |
| 84. Issue (4): (the rules (/aspects) of Divinity) | 181 |
| 85. Issue (5): (will and choice) | 182 |
| 86. Issue (6): (Allah is and nothing with Him) | 182 |
| 87. Issue (7): (the sea of blindness) | 183 |
| 88. Issue (8): (reaching Him by Him and by yourself) | 184 |
| 89. Issue (9): (the turning to finding the creatures) | 184 |
| 90. Issue (10): (the most exclusive description of Divinity) | 184 |
| 91. Issue (11): (acquisition) | 184 |
| 92. Issue (12): (dictation) | 185 |
| 93. Issue (13): (scourge and wellness) | 185 |
| 94. Issue (14): (the comprehending and the comprehended) | 185 |
| 95. Issue (15): (knowledge) | 186 |
| 96. Issue (16): (the ability of the possible) | 186 |
| 97. Issue (17): (there can come out from the one only one) | 187 |
| 98. Issue (18): (Descriptions are attributions or adjections and not additional essences) | 188 |
| 99. Issue (19): (multiplicity of relations) | 189 |
| 100. Issue (20): (multiplicity of the subjective descriptions) | 189 |
| 101. Issue (21): (images and substance) | 190 |
| 102. Issue (22): (triangulation in the creation) | 190 |
| 103. Issue (23): (self-perfection) | 191 |
| 104. Issue (24): (the rank of Divinity) | 191 |
| 105. Issue (25): (the independence of knowledge) | 192 |
| 106. Issue (26): (the independence of the known) | 192 |
| 107. Issue (27): (intellectual consideration) | 193 |
| 108. Issue (28): (revoking encompassing knowledge) | 194 |
| 109. Issue (29): (insight and sight) | 194 |
| 110. Issue (30): (pre-eternity) | 195 |
| 111. Issue (31): (incidence) | 195 |
| 112. Issue (32): (embodiment) | 195 |
| 113. Issue (33): (the first possible) | 196 |
| 114. Issue (34): (time) | 196 |
| 115. Issue (35): (communal expression) | 197 |
| 116. Issue (36): (destiny and fate) | 198 |
| 117. Issue (37): (the nonexistence of the possible) | 199 |
| 118. Issue (38): (the existence of the old) | 199 |
| 119. Issue (39): (preordination and will) | 200 |
| 120. Issue (40): (the independence of the necessary) | 200 |
| 121. Issue (41): (the divine relations) | 201 |
| 122. Issue (42): (the light of reason and the light of faith) | 202 |
| 123. Issue (43): (the rules of the essence) | 203 |
| 124. Issue (44): (essences do not turn) | 203 |
| 125. Issue (45): (endurance) | 203 |
| 126. Issue (46): (speaking) | 204 |
| 127. Issue (47): (the name, the named and naming) | 204 |
| 128. Issue (48): (existence of the possible) | 204 |
| 129. Issue (49): (types of the possible) | 205 |
| 130. Issue (50): (enumerating the knowable) | 205 |
| 131. Issue (51): (goodness and ugliness) | 205 |
| 132. Issue (52): (the evidence and the evidenced) | 206 |
| 133. Issue (53): (destiny and the destined) | 207 |
| 134. Issue (54): (invention) | 207 |
| 135. Issue (55): (the correlation of the world with Allah) | 207 |
| 136. Issue (56): (relating knowledge with the known) | 208 |
| 137. Issue (57): (enumerating the aspects of knowledge of the First Intellect) | 208 |
| 138. Issue (58): (the aspects of the world of creation and command) | 210 |
| 139. Issue (59): (command and ability) | 210 |
| 140. Issue (60): (the first-ness of the necessarily-existing by the other) | 211 |
| 141. Issue (61): (the First-ness of the Absolute Necessary) | 212 |
| 142. Issue (62): (the knowledge of the possible about Whom-brought-him-into-existence) | 212 |
| 143. Issue (63): (seeing and knowing) | 213 |
| 144. Issue (64): (pure goodness and pure evil) | 214 |
| 145. Issue (65): (describing Allah by possibility) | 214 |
| 4. The Fourth Part of the Meccan Revelation | 217 |
| 1. From that, poetry (The opening poem): | 218 |
| 2. Poetry: (seeing the House before disclosure) | 220 |
| 3. (Poetry: seeing the House after disclosure) | 221 |
| 4. Connection: (the rank of this youth) | 222 |
| 5. Witnessing the scene of the divine Pledge | 226 |
| 6. The conversations of teaching and subtleties, by the secret of Kaaba in existence and circumambulation | 228 |
| 7. The manifestation of life) | 228 |
| 8. (2- The manifestation of seeing) | 228 |
| 9. (3- The manifestation of knowledge) | 229 |
| 10. (4- The manifestation of hearing) | 229 |
| 11. (5- The manifestation of speaking) | 229 |
| 12. (6- The manifestation of willing) | 230 |
| 13. (7- The manifestation of ability) | 230 |
| 14. (The reason behind this contraction) | 230 |
| 15. (Poetry: addressing the Holy Kaaba) | 231 |
| 16. (The competing between man and the world) | 232 |
| 17. (Oncoming and outgoing) | 234 |
| 18. Connection: (entering the Kaaba) | 235 |
| 19. The First Section | 238 |
| 20. (The opening poem): | 238 |
| 21. (Introduction) | 238 |
| 22. (The ranks of characters) | 239 |
| 23. (The natures of characters) | 240 |
| 24. (The number of orbs from whose movements the four elements were found, with the overlapping) | 241 |
| 25. (The number of orbs from whose movements the four elements were found, without the overlapping) | 241 |
| 26. (The mixing of the character lâm-àlif) | 242 |
| 27. (There is no particular orb for the heat and the dryness) | 242 |
| 28. (There is no orb from whom any single element is found) | 243 |
| 29. (The orbs that rotate with the characters and their durations) | 243 |
| 30. (The characters of the divine Presence and the characters of angels, jinn and humans) | 244 |
| 31. (The characters of the fiery jinn) | 245 |
| 32. (The characters of the divine Presence) | 245 |
| 33. (The characters of the human presence) | 246 |
| 34. (The secret of pre-eternity in nûn) | 248 |
| 35. (The pre-eternality of the human) | 249 |
| 36. (The secret of pre-eternity in şâd and đâd) | 250 |
| 37. (The characters of angels) | 250 |
| 38. (The origin of the existence of angels) | 251 |
| 39. (The types of the motion of angels) | 252 |
| 40. (The motion of the knower and the motion of the worshiper) | 252 |
| 41. (The Origin of the two nines the Real's and creation's) | 252 |
| 42. (The orbs of casting and receiving) | 253 |
| 43. Supplementation: (the reason for the absence of a particular orb for heat and wetness) | 254 |
| 44. (Mixing the principal elements) | 256 |
| 45. (The effects of the principal elements) | 257 |
| 46. Connection: (types of realities) | 257 |
| 47. (The secret of mixing the elements) | 258 |
| 48. (The orbs from which the elements and the characters were found) | 259 |
| 49. (The orb of earth) | 260 |
| 50. (The orb of water) | 260 |
| 51. (The orb of air) | 260 |
| 52. (The orb of fire) | 261 |
| 53. (The orb of àlif) | 261 |
| 54. (The fifth origin) | 261 |
| 55. Connection: (the simples of the sensible and the realizing) | 263 |
| 56. (Conclusion: the vastness of the science of taste) | 265 |
| 5. The Fifth Part of the Meccan Revelation | 271 |
| 1. Mentioning some of the ranks of characters | 272 |
| 2. The kinds of the worlds of characters | 275 |
| 3. (The characters of the beginnings of chapters) | 276 |
| 4. (The difference between the people of Allah and ordinary authors) | 277 |
| 5. Connection: (on the mysterious characters in the beginning of chapters) | 278 |
| 6. (The origin of naming the chapters in Qurãn) | 279 |
| 7. (The number of chapters in whose beginnings there are mysterious characters) | 280 |
| 8. (The number of those mysterious characters) | 280 |
| 9. (Predicting the liberation of al-Quds) | 281 |
| 10. (The segments of faith) | 283 |
| 11. (The ranks of these mysterious characters) | 284 |
| 12. Connection: (interpreting the beginning of the Cow chapter) | 287 |
| 13. (The reality of the descending of the mîm below the line: the descending of the dominion) | 287 |
| 14. (The reality of the descending of the àlif into the line: the descending of the Lord into the lower sky) | 288 |
| 15. (The role of the lâm as a medium or link) | 288 |
| 16. (The descending of the lâm into the line) | 289 |
| 17. (The comprehensiveness of the orb of lâm) | 290 |
| 18. (The sanctification of the àlif above diacritics) | 290 |
| 19. (The secret of connecting the lâm with the mîm) | 291 |
| 20. (The secret of hamzah) | 292 |
| 21. (The secret the prolongation) | 293 |
| 22. (The secret of sourcing) | 295 |
| 23. (The difference between the character of àlif and the characters of wâw and yâå) | 296 |
| 24. (Where to seek the Real) | 297 |
| 25. Connection: (interpretation the word “that”) | 299 |
| 26. (Accompany the character àlif and the number one to everything in existence) | 299 |
| 27. (The Inscribed Book and the Unknown Book) | 300 |
| 28. (The getting of knowledge into the knowing) | 302 |
| 29. (The difference between knowledge and the known) | 305 |
| 30. (The seeing of the people of Paradise) | 306 |
| 31. (The seeing of the people of the facts) | 306 |
| 32. (The meaning of ‘that’ being an initial and not a subject or object) | 306 |
| 33. (The Mother of the Book) | 308 |
| 34. Alert (the book, the verses, the collection, and the separation) | 308 |
| 35. (Masculinisation and feminisation) | 310 |
| 36. (The number of the characters of àlif-lâm-mîîm) | 311 |
| 6. The Sixth Part of the Meccan Revelation | 313 |
| 1. So from that is the character of àlif | 314 |
| 2. And from that is the character of hamzah | 315 |
| 3. And from that is the character of hâå | 316 |
| 4. And from that is the character of the neglected áyn | 318 |
| 5. And from that is the character of neglected ħâå | 319 |
| 6. And from that is the character of dotted ghayn | 321 |
| 7. And from that is the character of dotted khâå | 322 |
| 8. And from that is the character of qâf | 323 |
| 9. And from that is the character of kâf | 324 |
| 10. And from that is the character of the dotted đâd | 326 |
| 11. And from that is the character of jîm | 327 |
| 12. And from that is the character of the dotted shîn with three (dots) | 328 |
| 13. And from that is the character of yâå | 330 |
| 14. And from that is the character of lâm | 331 |
| 15. And from that is the character of râå | 332 |
| 16. And from that is the character of nûn | 333 |
| 17. And from that is the character of the neglected ţâå | 334 |
| 18. And from that is the character of neglected dâl | 336 |
| 19. And from that is the character of tâå with two (dots) from above | 337 |
| 20. And from that is the character of the un-dotted şâd | 338 |
| 21. And from that is the character of the dotted zây | 344 |
| 22. And from that is the character of neglected sîn | 345 |
| 23. And from that is the character of the dotted đhâå | 346 |
| 24. And from that is the character of dotted dhâl | 348 |
| 25. And from that is the character of thâå with three (dots) | 349 |
| 26. And from that is the character of fâå | 350 |
| 27. And from that is the character of bâå with one (dot) | 352 |
| 28. And from that is the character of mîm | 353 |
| 29. And from that is the character of wâw | 354 |
| 30. (The similarity and the difference between the characters in the simples and the realities of the divine Names) | 356 |
| 31. Mentioning lâm-àlif and the àlif-of-lâm | 357 |
| 32. Knowing lâm-àlif of lâ: لآ | 358 |
| 33. (The difference between the Sufi and the realizing on the reason of the tendency of àlif and lâm) | 358 |
| 34. (Ibn al-Árabî's opinion: the real meaning of the tendency of the àlif and the lâm) | 360 |
| 35. (The correspondence between the descriptions of the creature and the divine Descriptions) | 361 |
| 36. (The Diving into the sea of Qurãn) | 362 |
| 37. (The secret of tying the lâm with the àlif) | 364 |
| 38. (Connecting the characters together) | 365 |
| 39. Knowing the alif-of-lâm of “âl:آل” | 366 |
| 40. (The reality of realities) | 367 |
| 41. (The manifestation of Allah the Exalted in the Lower and in the Hereafter) | 368 |
| 42. (The reality of realities as the origin of kinds) | 369 |
| 7. The Seventh Part of the Meccan Revelation | 371 |
| 1. (Interpreting the terms of the science of characters) | 372 |
| 2. (The Pole of characters) | 372 |
| 3. (The two Leaders) | 373 |
| 4. (The Pillars) | 373 |
| 5. (The Substitutes) | 373 |
| 6. (The secret of the Substitutes) | 374 |
| 7. (Negating the repetition of characters in different words) | 375 |
| 8. (Negating the repetition in general) | 375 |
| 9. (The accidents for the Ashárites) | 376 |
| 10. (The realizing seek the meaning and not the form) | 377 |
| 11. (The reason of the passion of the spirit in the sensible) | 378 |
| 12. (Submission in the path) | 379 |
| 13. Explanation (of the expressions mentioned on the characters) | 380 |
| 14. (The characters of the unseen world) | 380 |
| 15. (The characters of the world of witnessing) | 381 |
| 16. (The characters of the worlds of dominion, might and kingdom) | 382 |
| 17. (The meaning of the exit of the character, its orbs and its cycle) | 382 |
| 18. (The meaning of the number of the character) | 383 |
| 19. (The benefit of knowing the number of the character) | 384 |
| 20. (The indication of number one which is the number the characters of: àlif, yâå, qâf and shîn or gayn) | 384 |
| 21. (The indication of number two which is the number the characters of: bâå, kâf and râå) | 385 |
| 22. (The indication of number three which is the number the characters of: jîm, lâm and sîn or shîn) | 386 |
| 23. (The indication of number four which is the number the characters of: dâl, mîm and tâå) | 386 |
| 24. (The indication of number five which is the number the characters of: hâå, nûn and thâå) | 387 |
| 25. (The indication of number six which is the number the characters of: wâw, şâd or sîn and khâå) | 387 |
| 26. (The indication of number seven which is the number the characters of: zây, áyn and dhâl) | 389 |
| 27. (Eight The indication of number eight which is the number the characters of: ħâå, fâå or şâd and đâd or đhâå) | 389 |
| 28. (The indication of number nine which is the number the characters of: ţâå or đâd or şâd and đhâå or gayn) | 390 |
| 29. (The existence of the other aspects of working with characters) | 391 |
| 30. (The key to the secrets of numbers and their spirits and ranks) | 391 |
| 31. (The intention for authoring a book on the properties of number) | 391 |
| 32. (The meaning of the simples of characters) | 392 |
| 33. (The meaning of the duration of the motion of the orb of character) | 393 |
| 34. (The meaning of the nature of the character) | 393 |
| 35. (The meaning of classes in which the character is distinguished) | 394 |
| 36. (All words are from Qurãn) | 394 |
| 37. (The honour of the first and the last in existence) | 394 |
| 38. (The honour of the first and the last in Qurãn) | 395 |
| 39. (The ordinary characters) | 396 |
| 40. (The first class from the exclusive characters) | 396 |
| 41. (The second class from the exclusive which are the special exclusive) | 397 |
| 42. (The third class from the exclusive which are the abstract of the special exclusive) | 397 |
| 43. (The fourth class from the exclusive which are the elites of the abstract of the special exclusive) | 398 |
| 44. (The revelation of Qurãn and the revelation of Furqân) | 398 |
| 45. (The | 399 |
| 46. (The fifth class which are the essence of the elites of the abstract of the special exclusives) | 400 |
| 47. (The meaning of the beginning of the path, the end of the path and the middle of the path) | 400 |
| 48. (The meaning of rank of the character) | 401 |
| 49. (The meaning of the motion of the character) | 401 |
| 50. (The aspect of the character) | 401 |
| 51. (The meaning of the character's being pure or mixed) | 402 |
| 52. (The meaning of the character's being complete or incomplete) | 403 |
| 53. (The meaning of lifting the character that which connects with it) | 403 |
| 54. (The meaning of the sacred character) | 403 |
| 55. (The meaning of the character's being singular, dual, triangular, quadratic, amiable and dreary) | 404 |
| 56. (The entertaining of the Prophet's, may Allah have mercy and peace upon him, with the voice of Abu Bakr in his night journey) | 404 |
| 57. (The meaning of what the characters have of the Essence, Descriptions and Acts) | 405 |
| 58. (The meaning of what character have of characters) | 406 |
| 59. (The meaning of what the character have of Names) | 406 |
| 60. (Conclusion) | 407 |
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