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[ Ibn Arabi with his sheikh Abu Ishaq bin Tarif in Al-Jazira Al-Khadra ]
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This is also the doctrine of our sheikh, Abu Ishaq bin Tarif, and he is one of the greatest people I have ever met. I heard this sheikh one day while I was with him at his house in Al-Jazirah Al-Khadra in the year five hundred and eighty-nine, and he said to me, “O my brother, by God, I do not see people in the right except guardians from the last of them who know me.” I said to him, “How do you say that?” O Abu Ishaq, he said that the people who saw me or heard about me either said good about me or said the opposite. Whoever said good about me and praised me, he only described me in his capacity. If he were not worthy and worthy of that quality, he would not describe me with it. This is in my opinion one of the saints of God Almighty and those who He said, “In evil, he is with me a guardian. May God inform him of my situation, for he is one of insight and vision, and sees with the light of God. He is with me a guardian. I do not see, my brother, the saints of God.” He only said t