Ibn Arabi: When God created your body
When God created your body, He placed within it a Kaʿba, which is your heart. He made this temple of the heart the noblest of houses in the person of faith (muʾmin). He informed us that the heavens, in which there is the Frequented House (al-bayt al-maʿmūr), and the earth, in which there is the [physical] Kaʿba, do not encompass Him and are too confined for Him, but He is encompassed by this heart in the constitution of the believing human. What is meant here by 'encompassing' is knowledge of God.
(Ibn Arabi)
_____________________________
_____________________________
Recommended Reading:
'Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi'
By W.M. Thackston (Author)
Purchase Book:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Description:
This translation of Rumi's Fihi ma Fihi should easily become the standard English edition of this important collection of his discourses, conversations, and commentaries on various and sundry topics. In many cases the discussions preserved in this book provide the most sustained exposition available of Rumi's thought on a given topic.
_____________________________
_____________________________
Leave a comment