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مُحْيِي الدِّين بْنُ الْعَرَبِي

Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʿArabī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

his portrait is written, not drawn

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.

stationWalī
sayingsTwo
day keptOne

From His Tongueمِنْ كَلَامِهِ

Your Lord has created you to only bow to the Truth all the days and nights of your life.

Muḥy ad-Dīn ibn al-Arābi

Truth is what separates knowledge from ignorance. Proof of it (the Truth) is what separates intellection from imitation.

Muḥy ad-Dīn ibn al-Arābi

His Daysأَيَّامُهُ

Urs of Shaykh Muhiyuddīn Ibn al-‘Arabi22 Rabīʿ al-Thānī

Days of the Islamic calendar kept in his memory — each opens in the prayer book.