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God’s Vast Earth

‘I AM THE QUR’ AN AND THE SEVEN SUBSTITUTES’

WHEN, in Andalusia, I arrived at the Mediterranean Sea’-so Ibn Arabi tells his disciple Qunawi-‘I resolved not to make the crossing until I  had been allowed to see all the internal and external states that God had destined for me until the time of my death. So I turned towards God with total concentration and in a state of contemplation and vigilance that were perfect;

God then showed me all my future states, both internal and external. right through to the end of my days. I even saw that your father, Ishaq b. Muhammad, would be my companion, and you as well. I was made aware of your states, the knowledge you would acquire, your experiences and stations, and of the revelations, theophanies and everything else with which God was to grace you. I then went to sea, with insight and certainty as my possession. Everything was and everything is just as it was bound to be.”

In all probability it was in Algeciras (Jazirat al-kha?ra’)2 that, in the year S 8 9 / r r 9 3, Ibn Arabi had this vision of his own future and the future of his disciples. The Andalusian port of Algeciras was linked with Ceuta by an endless stream of sea-traffic, facing it across the Strait of Gibraltar; the ‘green island’ of the Arab geographers, it is where Kha<;ḥr is said to have gone with Moses to rebuild the wall of the two orphans,3 and it was certainly from here that the young shaikh set sail for the Maghreb for the first time in the year 589….

Farewells – QUEST FOR THE RED SULPHUR

BY the time he had returned to Spain, accompanied by the faithful Habashi, Ibn Arabi would seem already to have made up his mind to leave the

West for the East, the Maghreb for the Mashreq. This is the impliAtion of a letter in the Ki tab al-kutub, Ibn Arabi’ s ‘Correspondence’. 1 The information in this letter, plus the corroboration of some of the details provided by the Rub al­quds, allows us not only to retrace with a fair degree of accuracy Ibn Arabi’ s itinerary during his many wanderings through Andalusia in 595/II98 but also to conclude that in his mind he was making a final visit to his homeland, and that it was his intention to say goodbye to his teachers before he left.

We do not know exactly to whom the letter in question was addressed, but the text shows that the person was a shaikh whom the author had very recently spent some time with in the Maghreb. He may have been Abu Yaḥya b. Abi Bakr al-?anhaji-a man for whom he had written the Anqa’ mughrib in the same year (595) and together with whom, as he says in the Rub, he had numerous conversations about the ‘essential truths’ (baqa’iq). 2

But whatever the Ase may be, one thing for certain is that the letter was written in 5 9 5 on Ibn Arabi’s return from Fez. After enumerating for the sake of his correspondent the many shaikhs whom he had visited in Andalusia since taking leave of him in the Maghreb, Ibn Arabi brings the letter to a close by announcing: ‘Here ends the list of all those I have met, and in future I will not visit anyone for as long as I remain here’ (la azuru abadan bacdaha ma baqitu). 1 Now if one examines Ibn Arabi’s writings one notes that all references to …

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