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Ibn Arabi (Mishkat al-Anwar): The Nearness of the Generous One
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Allah the Exalted will proclaim at the End of Time:
Peace be upon you from the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful, the One Who is Life, the One Who is Self-Manifesting. You are the blessed ones. Enter now into the perfect contentment of Paradise. Delight in everlasting bliss, the nearness of the Most Generous One, the eternal abiding.
(This khabar was transmitted through the sage an-Naqqash, along with its lineage to the Prophet. Recorded in Ibn Arabi's Mishkat al-Anwar)
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Recommended Reading:
'Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology'
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This volume, the ninth on Islamic material to be published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series, brings to light a highly significant but little known area of Islamic spirituality. Editor John Renard has assembled here a volume of texts, most translated here for the first time, culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality, on the theme of the complex and multi-faceted role of knowledge in relation to the spiritual life. He presents excerpts on knowledge from the works of nine major Muslim teachers, most translated from Arabic, but also including important texts from Persian originals. The Introduction offers a survey of the development of Sufi modes of knowing through the thirteenth century in their broader context, and then focuses on the manuals or compendia of Sufi spirituality treated here. Historical notes provide brief identifications of many of the individual sources and personalities mentioned throughout the treatises.
'Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology'
By John Renard (Editor, Translator, Introduction), Ahmet T. Karamustafa (Introduction)
Purchase Book:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Description:
This volume, the ninth on Islamic material to be published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series, brings to light a highly significant but little known area of Islamic spirituality. Editor John Renard has assembled here a volume of texts, most translated here for the first time, culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality, on the theme of the complex and multi-faceted role of knowledge in relation to the spiritual life. He presents excerpts on knowledge from the works of nine major Muslim teachers, most translated from Arabic, but also including important texts from Persian originals. The Introduction offers a survey of the development of Sufi modes of knowing through the thirteenth century in their broader context, and then focuses on the manuals or compendia of Sufi spirituality treated here. Historical notes provide brief identifications of many of the individual sources and personalities mentioned throughout the treatises.
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