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The desires of this world are like seawater: the more you drink of them, the more you thirst.
Deliver us, O Allah, from the sea of names:
From my insufficiency to my perfection… And from my deviation to my equilibrium…
From my sublimity to my beauty, And from my splendor to my majesty…
From my scattering to my gathering, And from my rejection to my communion…
From my baseness to my preciousness, And from my stones to my pearls…
From my rising to my setting, And from my days to my nights…
From my luminosity to my darkness, And from my guidance to my straying…
From my perigee to my apogee… And from the base of my lance to its tip…
From my waxing to my waning… And from the void of my moon, to its crescent…
From my pursuit, to my flight… And from my steed, to my gazelle…
From my breeze, to my boughs… And from my boughs, to my shade…
From my shade, to my delight… And from my delight, to my torment…
From my torment, to my likeness… And from my likeness, to my impossibility…
From my impossibility, to my validity… From my validity, to my deficiency…
I am no one in existence but myself.
If it had not been for this Love The universe would not have appeared in its Source…
Its movement from nonexistence to existence, Is the movement of the love of the One — Who brings into existence for this purpose.
The universe also loves to witness itself in existence, As it was witnessed in immutability.
Thus by every aspect, the movement from immutable nonexistence, to the existence of the sources, is a movement of Love.
Both in respect of Allah, and in respect to itself.
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky: There was not a single star left; and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure…
Then I married the moon.
In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols: This because the things of the invisible world attract me more than those of actual life.
I saw Divinity with the eye of the heart: I said, “Who are you?” It said, “You.”
Absolute Existence is the source of all existence.
Those to whom God remains veiled pray to the God to whom they believe is their Lord to have compassion with them. But the intuitive mystics ask that the Divine Compassion be fulfilled, or come into being and exist, through them.
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act, of the creative imagination.
The teacher is one who hears you, Then unveils you to yourself.
The universe is its own veil in itself, And cannot perceive the truth, since it perceives itself.
It is continuously in a veil which is not removed, Since it knows that it is distinct from its Creator, by its need of Him.
It has no portion of that essential necessity which belongs to the existence of Allah, so it can never perceive Him.
In this respect, Allah is never fully known… By the knowledge of tasting and witnessing — Because the in-time has no hold on That.
The world is Imagination Yet in reality, it is Real.
The absolute reality is Now — As it has always been.
It is the One without oneness, And the Single without singleness.
It is not composed of Name and Named, There is no Name or Named, other than That.
That is the First without firstness, And the Last without lastness,
It is the Apparent without appearance, And the Hidden without hiddenness.
Selected Verses and Teachings for Meditation - Ibn Arabi