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Ibn Arabi Quotes

1165–1240

Ibn Arabi (Arabic: ابن عربي; b. 1165-1240), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic thought.

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I take love as my religion wherever its caravans lead, for love is my religion and my faith.

Every self-manifestation bestows a new creation and removes a pre-ceding creation. Its removal is the essence of annihilation (fanaa) in the passing self-manifestation and subsistence (baqaa) in the bestowal of the following self-manifestation.

His is the wisdom of singularity because he is the most perfect existent in the human species. That is why the whole affair began with him and is sealed with him. For he was a prophet while Adam was between water and clay. Then, in his elemental configuration, he was the Seal of the Prophets. And three is the first of the singulars. Every singular beyond one derives from it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ibn Arabi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.