The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Ibn al-Arabi’s meeting with Muhammad al-Marrakshi ]

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His saying, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, “Whoever knows himself knows his Lord”

I saw Muhammad al-Marrakishi in Marrakesh, and he used to talk to me day and night, and this was his constant desertion, and I never saw him getting tired of anything. Adversity would pass by him and he would not receive it except with joy and laughter, so it relieved him in our view as he moved from joy to joy and from happiness to happiness. I would say to him, “Will you be patient when these hateful calamities come, of course?” He would say, “Why were you patient or not?” So that patience with the divine judgment resulted in me seeing the eye, so it distracted me from Every ruling I receive only through it is my reward, so I ask for it, for through it calamities descend in my vision, and you see the ruling of calamities in my image, and each when I look at it. Then this person was one of the people who memorized his times of worship, and by God I have never seen


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