Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The first scene that Ibn Arabi tasted on the Sufi path ]
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It is the first scene we have experienced from this door on this path, and it is that one day I carried in my hand something despised and disgusting in the eyes of the common people. People like us did not carry anything like that because of the recklessness of nature in our souls and the love of being distinguished from those who do not notice with the eye of veneration. So I saw the Sheikh and with him. His companions were coming, and his companions said to him, “O our master, this so-and-so has come and did not stop on the way. He struggled with himself. He saw him carrying in the middle of the market, where people saw him so-and-so, and they mentioned to him what I had in my hand. So the sheikh said, ‘Perhaps he did not carry it as a struggle for himself.’ They said to him, ‘What then?’” He said, “So ask him if he meets with us.” When I reached it, I greeted the Sheikh, and he said to me after returning the greeting, “With what reason did you carry this in your hand? It is a d


