Gateway to Divine Mercy

This spells out the specific calling of this great wali of Allah (swt).

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A New Book: The Hilyat Abdal of Ibn Arabi (ra)

I was reminded by a comment by Michael Tiernan on the previous post on the Discipline of the Abdal about my intention to do a post on this valuable book on the basic discipline of the Sufi path. I attended Stephen Hirtenstein’s talk on the book recently at Oxford and have just finished reading the [...]

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The Spiritual Discipline of the Abdal

” O you who desire the spiritual abodes of the Substitutes (Abdal),
without aspiring to the requsite actions,
Do not hanker after them in vain, for you cannot be one of
them without emulating their spiritual states.
Silence your heart, seclude yourself from all that brings you
down to other than the Beloved Master,
Be wakeful and hunger. Thus shall you [...]

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Three New Websites on Shaykh al-Akbar (RA)

The Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi (ra) has been one of the most influential sufis in history. His teachings have always been a source of attraction for the most keenest minds as well as seeping into diverse muslim cultures through more popular forms such as poetry. However in more recent times these teachings have also [...]

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Adab and Revealation

An excellent article on the Shaykh al-Akbar’s hermeneutics and the immense adab that he shows for the “letter” of the Qur’an from the Ibn Arabi Society website. An extract:
Recent studies of the work of the Shaykh al-Akbar have been bringing more and more clearly to light the fact that his doctrine is rooted in the [...]

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