Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ Ibn Arabi in Maqam Bahlala ]
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I have tasted this position, and there has been a time when I performed the five prayers as an imam in congregation, according to what I was told, by completing the bowing and prostration, and all the conditions of prayer, including actions and words, and in all of this I have no knowledge of that, neither about the congregation, nor the place, nor the situation, nor anything in the world of sense. Because of witnesses, I was mostly absent from myself and others, and I was told that when the time for prayer came, I would perform the prayer and lead the people in prayer, but my condition was like the movements that occur from a sleeper, and he had no knowledge of it, so I knew that God had preserved my time and had not committed any sin on my tongue as He had done to Al-Shibli in his sleep, but Al-Shibli was responding in The times of prayers according to what was narrated from him. I do not know whether his response was reasonable or if it was like what I was in, for the narrator


