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Fu al-ikam
The Pearls of Wisdom
Ibn Arab
Contents:
Ch.1 Being and That is the Real Qasyaris Commentary Ch.2 The Divine Names Qasyaris Commentary Ch. 3 The Immutable Archetypes and a remark concerning the Manifestations of the Names Ch. 4 Substance and Accident According to the People of Allah Ch. 5 Exposition of the Universal Worlds and the Five Divine Planes
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Ch. 3 The Immutable Archetypes and a remark concerning the Manifestations of the Names
Shaykh al-Akbar Mohyiddin ibn al-Arabi Fusus al-Hikam (Pearls of Wisdom) Translation: Dr. Mukhtar Hussain Ali Know that the divine names possess noetic forms (suwar mdqula) in the divine knowledge, since He knows by His Essence for His Essence, and His names and attributes and those noetic formsbeing that they are identical with the Essence, self-disclosing by a specific entification and specified relationare called the Immutable Archetypes, whether they are universal or particular, in the terminology of the people of Allah. Their universals are called quiddities and their realities and particulars are called ipseities by the philosophers. Quiddities are the universal forms of the names in the presence of the divine knowledge in their initial entification. These forms emanate from the divine Essence by the Most-Holy Effusion and the initial self-disclosure, by means of the love intrinsic to it and the petition of the Keys of the Unseen (mafatih al-ghayb)which none knows except Himfor their manifestation and perfection. The divine effusion is divided into the Most-Holy Effusion and the Holy Effusion. Through the former, the Immutable Entities and their essential potentialities in the divine knowledge come into being. Through the latter, those entities appear in the external world with
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Ch. 5 Exposition of the Universal Worlds and the Five Divine Planes
Shaykh al-Akbar Mohyiddin ibn al-Arabi Fusus al-Hikam (Pearls of Wisdom) Translation: Dr. Mukhtar Hussain Ali The word alam (world) being derived from the word alama, lexically signifies that through which something is known, and technically signifies, everything other than Allah. This is because what is known through it is Allah, with respect to His names and attributes, since through each individual in the world a name among the divine names is known, because it is locus of manifestation of a specific name among them. Through real substances and types the Universal Names (al-asma al-kulliyah) are known, even through animals considered contemptible by laymen such as the fly, the mosquito, and the flea, etc. are known names for which they are a manifestation. The First Intellect is a universal world because of its encompassing universal realities of existence and their forms by way of collectivity; the name, the Merciful (al-Rahman) is known through it. The Universal Soul is also a universal world because of its encompassing the particulars of whatever is encompassed by the First Intellect by way of differentiation; the name, the Beneficent (d-Rahim) is known through it. The Perfect Human (al-insan al-kamil) is a universal world because he unifies them all by way of collectivity with respect to his spirit and by way of differentiation with respect to his heart. Through him the name, Allah is known, which encompasses all the names. If every individual in existence is a sign for a divine name, and every name being encompassed by the Essence which includes its names, also includes them, then each individual in existence is also a world through which all the names are known. Therefore the worlds are infinite, from this perspective. However, since the divine universal planes are five, there are also five universal worlds, inclusive of everything other than them. The first universal plane is the plane of the Absolute Unseen, and its world is the world of Immutable Archetypes in the plane of the [divine] knowledge. In contrast to it is the plane of the Absolute Visible (al-shahdda) and its world is the Kingdom (al-mulk).
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