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Ibn ʿArabi (full name Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibnʿArabī al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾī أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن عربي الحاتمي الطائي ‎ 26 July 1165 – 16 November 1240), was an Arab Andalusian Sunni scholar of Islam, mystic, poet, and philosopher. He is renowned among practitioners of Sufism as Shaykh Al-Akbar "the greatest master" and also as a saint.

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When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

Allah, Know, Know Yourself, Knows, Same, Vanishes

Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.

Creature, Ignorance, Matter, Missing, Praises, Says

I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.

Believe, Caravans, Direction, Love Is, May

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or. . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

Invisible, Oriented, Quests, Revelations, Toward

My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith.

Heading, Heart, Idols, Kaaba, Love Is, Monks

I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

Love, Path, Religion, Takes, Way, Way Of Love

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Chained, Desire, Desires, God, Heart

If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer

Already, Answer, Answers, Doe, Rooms, Someones

Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.

Arguments, Exclusively, Heart, Islamic, Pours, Wisdom

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Animal, Awakens, Dream, Dreams, Sleep, Sleeps

None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover

Beloved, Ent, Exist, Eye, Lovers, Manifest

My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.

Ground, Heart, Idols, Quran, Sacred, Wherever

You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself

Face, Faith, Have Faith, Sight, Veil, Veils

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form. . . . Love alone is my religion.

Accepting, Alone, Form, Heart, Religion, Resemble

My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.

Book, Capable, Christian, Gazelles, Spiritual, Torah