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Futūḥāt Translation Project

10 July 2025

It is impossible for me to argue for something I have no knowledge about.

Book 13, Chapter 90

1 July 2025

When you know that there is something you do not know, then you know; and this knowing is the knowledge that there is, after all, something unknowable.

Book 13, Chapter 90

4 July 2025

The Qurʾān has the quality of gathering together the whole.

Book 13, Chapter 90

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Claude Addas

The paradox of the duty of perfection in the doctrine of Ibn ‘Arabi

Chosen by God to be his representative in the universe, he [man] is inclined to ‘pretend’ he is God, either in a crude way by proclaiming himself divine – and, Ibn ‘Arabi observes, he is the only creature who has ever claimed the divinity for himself – or, in a more subtle way, each time he thinks he is autonomous, he forgets that nothing of what he is or what he has belongs to him exclusively, that the power that he exercises over things and beings which surround him and over himself has been lent to him provisionally and can be withdrawn from him at any moment, that he only has the place that he occupies through God and in the name of God.

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Éric Geoffroy

Spiritual Realization (al-tahqiq) through Daily Awakening

This is a meditation on the meaning of al-tahqiq (verification or realisation) which is central to the writing of Ibn ‘Arabi, and drawing on the writings of Sufis before Ibn ‘Arabi, such as Junayd (d. 911 AD, the “Leader of the Sufis”, sayyid al-ta’ifa), and others after him, such as Shaykh al-‘Alawi. Junayd said, “I have achieved al-tahqiq by staying in the presence of God for thirty years under these stairs”, by which he meant the stairs of his house. The paper later published in the Journal of the Society can be found here.

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