Hazrat Ibn Arabi

 Ibn ʿArab Arabic: ابن عربي 1165 - 1240, full name: Muhyī al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿArabī al-Ḥ-alī-alīmash-alīmash Arabic: محي الدين أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن علي بن محمـد بن يي ح Arab, Arab, my ʽam, Arabic scholar.



 Of the 850 works allegedly attributed to him, about 700 are true while more than 400 are still extant. His cosmological teachings were the preeminent world view of most of the Islamic world.


Islamic philosophy


zHe is famous among the Sufism practitioners by the names al-Shaykh al-Akbar "Great Shaykh"; from which the Akbariyya or Akbarian school gets its name, Muḥyiddin ibn Arabi, and was considered a saint. 



 He is also known as Shaikh-e Akbar Mohi-ud-Din Ibn-e Arabi throughout the Middle East. In ancient Europe, he was known as Dr. Maximus.


He was heavily involved in Sufi metaphysics. One of his great ideas is Waḥdat al-Wujūd the unity of life. ' Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn' Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn `Arabī al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾ حد ī أبو عبد الله محمد على الله is a Sufi mystic, poet, and Arab philosopher from 7th in Murcia, Al-Andalus on the 17th of Ramaḍān 560 AH 28 July 1165 AD. 




Ibn Arabi was a Sunni, although his writings on the Twelve Imams were also widely accepted among the Shia. It is disputed whether he ordered the Zahiri madhhab which was later merged with the Hanbali school.



After his death, the teachings of Ibn Arabi spread rapidly throughout the Islamic world. His writings were not limited to the Muslim elite but penetrated other sections of society with widespread access to Sufi orders. 



The work of the Arabs is also well-known for its Persian, Turkish, and Urdu works. Many famous poets were trained by Sufi orders and inspired by the ideas of the Arabs.



Other scholars of his time such as al-Munawi, Ibn 'Imad al-Hanbali, and al-Fayruzabadi all praised Ibn Arabi as'' a good friend of Allah and a reliable scholar '', '' a perfect mujtahid without a doubt '' and.


 '' The imam of the shari'ah people both in knowledge and heritage, the teacher of the pathway of knowledge and practice, and the shaykh of the shaykhs of the true people even though the spiritual knowledge draw and understanding '' of Tayy, and his birthplace was Berber of North Africa.


Al-Arabi writes about the uncle of the deceased mother, Yahya ibn Yughan al-Sanhaji, a prince of Tlemcen, who left wealth for a life of self-denial after meeting a mysterious Sufi man.


 His father, Ali ibn Muḥammad, served in the Armed Forces of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Saʿd ibn Mardanīsh, governor of Murcia. 


When Ibn Mardanīš died in 1172 AD, his father changed his allegiance to Almohad Sultan, Abū Ya’qūb Yūsuf I, and returned to government service. His family then moved from Murcia to Seville. Ibn Arabi was raised in the ruling court and trained in warfare.



In his youth, Ibn Arabi became secretary to the governor of Seville. He married Maryam, a woman from an influential family. 



Ibn Arabi writes that as a child he preferred to play with his friends rather than spend time in religious education. He had his first impression of God at an early age and later wrote about the experience as "the diversity of reality in the whole world combined with that look". 



He later came up with several ideas about Jesus and called him “his first guide in the way of God.” Cat. who asked to meet Ibn Arabi. 



Ibn Arabi said that since the first meeting, he has learned to distinguish between the formal knowledge of sound reasoning and the revelation of an understanding of the nature of things. 


He then embraced Sufism and devoted his life to spiritual pursuits.  Later he moved to Fez, Morocco, where Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi became his spiritual adviser. In 1200 he took the last leave of his master Yūsuf al-Kūmī, then living in the city of Salé.

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