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Caliph of the God, and to appear in His image
what appeared about as a reward”. (Ibn Arabi,
him from his proverbs 2002, Vol. 41: 101)
in the world of bodies,
they are the successors This causality is the same as
of this Caliph, and instead we find it with Eckhart, who
of him in every matter it believes that the manifestation
is valid for him. of God in man is to give up
That is why the ten everything, abandon things,
statements that do not and turn to God Almighty:
accept more than this “When a person avoids
number are true for crowds, God gives Him
Him, as this is the first Himself without an
prosecution”. (Ibn Arabi, image or an example,
2002, Vol. 41: 101) all things are known by
images and examples”.
More precisely, the readiness
that a Perfect person contains 3. Manifestation of God
is the cause of the in Things
manifestation of God Almighty It is unfair in a place to reduce
in Him and being the Divine the scientific nature of mystical
image. This readiness has matters to the unity of existence
generated a total orientation to or Divine presence; Rather,
God, and this means that all what makes mysticism an
kinds of veils are lifted and mysticism is the path to God
even have no meaning for the for God Almighty only and
Perfect person, and this is the only, and not tarnishing this
meaning of Ibn Arabi’s saying: intention with anything else,
“When God knew that and this matter in fact enters
He preferred his Lord a scholar or takes another out
over Himself by the of the framework of mysticism,
proportion of finding and despite the agreement of
Him, He Has given Him both mystics on the issue of
