The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Ibn Arabi’s meeting with a group of men of the soul of the Most Merciful ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 274 من الجزء One

And there is not a class that we have mentioned except that we saw among them a group of men and women in Seville, Tlemcen, Mecca, and in many places, and they had proof attesting to the validity of what they say. As for us, we do not need any of them for proof of what they claim, for God has given each class a sign by which it is known, so if we see that sign We know the sincerity of its owner from where they do not make you aware. Our opinion of someone who claims that is a liar or one with a corrupt imagination. If we learn of him that he will return, we advise him. If we see him in love with his situation, obscured by his corrupt imagination, we leave him. The most truthful of the women we have seen in this matter is Fatima bint Ibn al-Muthanna in Seville. She served her, and she was ninety-five years old. The Mother of the Poor in Marchana, Umm al-Zahra, also in Seville, and Kulbahar in Mecca, called Sitt Ghazala. Among the men are Abu al-Abbas ibn al-Mundhir, from the people


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