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The Book of Majesty and Beauty by Ibn Arabi

THE BOOK OF MAJESTY AND BEAUTY

From the Book

Therefore, what has been spiritually disclosed to our colleagues is sound. It is their judgment – that Majesty in itself closes and diminishes them and that Beauty in itself opens and expands them – that is in error.

So long as the divine disclosure is sound, the rest is inconsequential, but Majesty and Beauty, in their essences, areas we have described them. Know that the Qur’an encompasses Beauty and the Majesty of Beauty.

As for Absolute Majesty, no created being possesses any means of entering into it or bearing witness to it. The Truth has singled it out for Himself.

It is the presence in which the Truth sees Himself as He is. Were we to have a means of entering into this, we would possess a comprehensive knowledge of Allah and all that is with Him, and that is impossible.

And know, brother, that since Allah Most High possesses two realities and has described Himself with two Hands 1 and knows us as two “handfuls,” the whole of existence has carried out this mle:

There is nothing in existence that does not contain its compensatory opposite.

Out of all this counter position, we are here specially concerned with what pertains to the Divine Majesty and the Divine Beauty (and I mean by Majesty here the Majesty of Beauty, as mentioned above).

No divine saying related through transmitters from Allah Most High contains anything indicative of Majesty without its being accompanied by something of Beauty to counter it. It is the same way in all revealed scriptures, and in everything.