Ibn al-‘Arabi, may Allah be pleased with him, followed the Book and the Sunna. He said, ‘Whoever casts the balance of the shari‘a from his hand for an instant is destroyed.’ He said, ‘All that occurs to your mind, Allah ta‘ala is different from that.’
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Knowledge of God
Shaykh al-Alawi has taken ibn al-Ashir’s verse poem, itself a summation of Islamic teachings, and made it a vehicle for making plain the unitary knowledge, the hidden doctrine, that lies beneath every phenomenon of outer wisdom.
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