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رسائل ابن عربي

الخيال عالم البرزخ والمثال

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255 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1984

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Ibn ʿArabi

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Universally known by the title of "Muhyi al-Din" (The Reviver of the Religion) and "al-Shaykh al-Akbar" (The Greatest Shaykh) Ibn 'Arabī (Arabic: ابن عربي‎) (July 28, 1165 - November 10, 1240) was an Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-`Arabī al-Hāṭimī al-Ṭā'ī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن العربي الحاتمي الطائي).

Muhammad ibn al-Arabi and his family moved to Seville when he was eight years old. In 1200 CE, at the age of thirty-five, he left Iberia for good, intending to make the hajj to Mecca. He lived in Mecca for some three years, where he began writing his Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Illuminations). In 1204, he left Mecca for Anatolia with Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq, whose son Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qunawī (1210-1274) would be his most influential disciple.

In 1223, he settled in Damascus, where he lived the last seventeen years of his life. He died at the age of 76 on 22 Rabi' II 638 AH/November 10, 1240CE, and his tomb in Damascus is still an important place of pilgrimage.

A vastly prolific writer, Ibn 'Arabī is generally known as the prime exponent of the idea later known as Waḥdat al-Wujūd (literally Unity of Being), though he did not use this term in his writings. His emphasis was on the true potential of the human being and the path to realising that potential and becoming the perfect or complete man (al-insān al-kāmil).

Some 800 works are attributed to Ibn 'Arabā, although only some have been authenticated. Recent research suggests that over 100 of his works have survived in manuscript form, although most printed versions have not yet been critically edited and include many errors.

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كأي كتاب بدأت على هون، وأعجبني سرد ولغة تحمل سر وعون،
وكأسيرة لغتي العربية،إمتزج اللغو بالغلو في مخيلتي،ولكني تجاهلت،واتمتت الفصل والفصلين بتركيز وشوق لما بعد،وكانت الطامة، نعم
هو ادعى وانغر بما حباه الله من فهم، فرفع منزلته لمقام أولى الأولياء وكأنه نبي وليس بنبي ويصدح بغرور انه من المصطين الأولياء الأخيار،ربما اعمته رغبة الاسهاب وارادها فما وجدها في كتب السنه، اراد الشروحات التفصيلية لحادثة الاسراء بالرسول محمدعليه افضل الصلاة والسلام،فنصب مكانه لتولي الشرح والاسهاب وادارة دفة الحديث في كل سماء مر عليها،وبالعروج حكى وعن الجنة والنار وسدرة المنتهى ماانتهى
كتاب عنوانه الخيال والمثال من ابن العربي بدأ بجميل وختم بقبيح
تجملت اولى صفحاته بدمج القاريء في فلسفة الخيال حتى عشقت الخيال
وحلمت بالخيال
واحببت الخيال
،والمثال انتحى فيه منحى التشبه بالاصل وعامت افكاره يمنه ويسره حتى اتم خيالاته بالعروج المعووج عن الحق ليلحق بالمبتدعه ومن تبعه من اتباعه الجهلةالى يوم الدين
ختاما اقول، دعك من معمعة الفلسفة والفكر فتفسيره للاسراء والمعراج واقتحام هذا الباب من الغيب يعطي المطلع انطباع ب نتائج، فإما ان صدقه فالحادثة برمتها خيال، وان كذبه فقد فتح بذلك في نفس القارئ مجال للشك،
اعجب لمن اتبع التصوف وكلها محض خيال في خيال
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