Disclaimer:
These writings are personal reflections, not religious instruction or authoritative teaching. They are shared only in the spirit of learning and seeking. Any benefit is from Allah, and any mistake is my own..
🌊 The Essence of Wahdat al-Wujūd
Ibn ʿArabi begins from a simple but overwhelming insight:
“There is only One Being — and that is Allah.”
Everything else that appears to exist — mountains, stars, souls, angels — has no independent existence of its own.
They are modes, reflections, or self-disclosures (tajalliyāt) of the One Reality.
Just as waves rise and fall upon the surface of the ocean, so do all forms rise and fade within the Infinite Being of God.
The waves are not other than the sea — yet the sea remains even when no wave is seen.
Thus, Ibn ʿArabi does not say that the world is God — rather, that there is nothing besides God, for all things exist only through Him and in Him.
💎 Existence as Borrowed Light
He explains that the existence (wujūd) of creation is like the light of the moon — it shines, but its radiance is borrowed from the sun.
Likewise, every being you see — even “you” — is a reflection of the Divine Light (Nūr Allāh).
“The Real is the Being of all that is.”
“You are not you — you are He, and yet He is not you.”
This paradox is not meant to confuse, but to awaken the soul beyond duality: to see that our existence is a divine trust (amānah) shining through the mirror of our form.
🌤 Creation as the Breath of the Compassionate
In Futūḥāt al-Makkiyyah, Ibn ʿArabi describes creation as Nafas ar-Raḥmān —
“The Breath of the Compassionate.”
The universe, then, is the continual exhalation of Divine Mercy — every heartbeat, every leaf, every atom is sustained by this eternal Breath.
Were He to stop breathing, all would vanish instantly into non-being.
In this sense, existence itself is worship — every thing, knowingly or unknowingly, glorifies its Source.
As the Qur’an says:
“There is not a thing but celebrates His praise, though you do not understand their praise.” (17:44)
🕊 The Human Role — The Mirror of Mirrors
Among all creation, the human heart is the most complete mirror.
It can contain the full spectrum of divine qualities — mercy, wisdom, majesty, love — and thus become a conscious witness of the One Being.
When a human being realizes this truth inwardly, he awakens to his station as al-Insān al-Kāmil,
the Perfect Human, the microcosm in which God contemplates Himself.
This is not arrogance — it is servanthood refined to transparency.
🌺 The Veil of Names
For Ibn ʿArabi, the diversity of things — their beauty and opposites, their joy and pain — are all veils through which Allah manifests His Names.
The Name al-Raḥmān (the Compassionate) may show through a mother’s care;
al-Jabbār (the Restorer) through the storm that renews the earth.
To reject any of these manifestations is to deny one of His faces.
Therefore, the gnostic learns to see God in all things — not just in the “good” or “beautiful,”
but even in the painful and hidden, for the Divine Being is boundless and knows no division.
Would you like us next, my Brother, to continue with how Ibn ʿArabi explains the path toward experiencing this Unity —
the journey from conceptual belief (‘ilm al-yaqīn) to direct realization (‘ayn al-yaqīn and ḥaqq al-yaqīn)?
It is the map from knowing the One to becoming a vessel of the One.
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