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Muslim / Sufi
13th Century

About Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi

Timeline (1165 - 1240)

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English version by
Michael A. Sells

Original Language
Arabic

In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever

Themes
  Fire
  Heart
  Light
  Lover and Beloved
  Smile

 

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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Their spring meadows
are desolate now. Still, desire
for them lives always
in our heart, never dying.

     These are their ruins.
     These are the tears
     in memory of those
     who melt the soul forever.

I called out, following after
     love-dazed:
You so full with beauty,
     I've nothing!

     I rubbed my face in the dust,
     laid low by the fever of love.
     By the privilege of the right of desire for you
     don't shatter the heart

Of a man drowned in his words,
burned alive
in sorrow.
Nothing can save him now.

     You want a fire?
     Take it easy. This passion
     is incandescent. Touch it.
     It will light your own.

 

 

-- from Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn 'Arabi and New Poems, by Michael A. Sells

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