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13th Century

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Timeline (1165 - 1240)

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English version by
Maurice Gloton

Original Language
Arabic

If what she says is true

Themes

Bliss

Fire

Pain and Wounding

Recommended Books

	Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, by Henry Corbin
	Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Michael A. Sells
	Ibn al-Arabi: Bezels of Wisdom (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi / Edited by R. W. J. Austin
	Ibn Arabi, by William Chittick
	Ibn Arabi and the Voyage of No Return, by Claude Addas

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If what she says is true
And she feels for me
The obsessive desire
That I feel for her,

Then, in the sweltering heat of noon,
In her tent, in secret,
We will meet
To fulfill the promise completely...

We will reveal the passion
We feel one for the other
As well as the harshness of the trial
And the pains of ecstasy.

-- from Perfect Harmony: (Calligrapher's Notebooks) , by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi

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