Ibn Arabi and Wahdat al-Wujud (Unity of Being) - Shaykh Hasan Spiker
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- Did ibn Arabi believe in monism or pantheism? Shaykh Hasan Spiker clarifies, and also explains why such incorrect assumptions are made about masters of the spiritual sciences.
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A perfect exposition of the ideas of the Shaykh al-Akbar. May Allah bless Shaykh Hasan Spiker for his sharing of this knowledge.
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One might like to explore Vishishta Advaita (qualified Non-duality), as shared by Ramanujacharya (1017-1137 CE).
And also Advaita Vedanta (pure Non-duality). The depiction of the Truth at its most radical! When it was realised is undated and undateable. However, the earliest known scripture as i am aware of depicting it is Yoga Vashishtam, which dates back to over 12,000 years.
Advaita is as radical as the Truth can possibly be. "The Absolute alone Is; nothing else is." "The Absolute is not the highest; It Is The Only."
Separating Alla's Will from Allah is "recognizing parts to Allah". This is the definition of Shirk. If Allah has a relationship with anything, by extension it's Allah, because whatever is making Allah maintain that relationship is also Allah so the relationship itself is not outside of Allah. This is the same concept in one of the branches of Hindu theology known as "Advait". Advait simply means no-second, implying, only one, which in Arabic is Tawhid.
Brilliantly.
Are you talking about ibn Arabi?
He never said this
What the respected Shaykh is describing is nothing more than ordinary Ashari occasionalism. This is basic aqidah.
So why all the fuss?
Why all the secrecy from Sufis about it?
Why did so many Ashari ulama opposed wahdatul wujud?
Perhaps the secrecy and poetic language hides something against the explicit meaning of the Quran.
The answer to your questions is ego. God can only be known through direct experience. To die before you die. Everything else is belief. Qu'ran and sunnah mirror the story of one's 'jihad an nafs' and serve as the guide towards that realisation and as a defence shield to not lose track of it. Everything in creation is metaphor. Objective theomonism as per the Cambridge companion to classical Islamic thoeology edited by Tim Winter.
According to Ibn Arabi
Allah is absolute wujud (being)
wujud is one, undifferentiated
that which exists has wujud
created things exist
so created things have wujud
the wujud of created things is the one and only wujud
the wujud of created things is Allah
created things are the manifestation of Allah's names and attributes
and not the manifestation of Allah's essence
but what is Allah's essence other than his names and attributes or his wujud?
the Akbarian cannot deny that IA either directly believes or implies that the substance of created things, i.e., their very being/wujud, is the same wujud that IS the wujud of Allah.
This may not be a tyoe of pantheistic/panetheistic monism but it sure does look like it.
This is a radically misleading account of Ibn al-'Arabi. I would describe it as a desperate attempt to salvage Ibn al-'Arabi for Orthodox Sunni Islam. In _The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology_ (edited by Timothy J. Winter, aka Abdal Hakim Murad) Ibn al-'Arabi's speculative theology is referred to as _objective theomonism_ , which of course is the idea that only God exists or possesses _wujūd_ and the cosmos is only a mode of the One. This notion received push back from within Sufism, as well as non-Sufis too, including Said Nursi, etc.
Whilst in the trench warfare of 'jihad an nafs' even the most learned practicing scholar will fail to resonate with the deepest truth that his own sense of separation is illusory. .
Sorry its you who doesn't know what he's on a about. Shaykh Abdal hakim murad is not the authority or the final say on ibn Arabi's place in sunni Islam. The truth is scholars disagreed on him early on, with praise and criticism being reported of him by Ibn abdasalam. But very early on you who have giants like ibn Ata Allah praising him. And many since then to the point he's known by sunni scholars as shayk al akbar. Ibn taymiyyah criticised him and salafiyah obviously oppose him.
But claiming hes trying to "slavage" him shows your ignorance. Scholars have discussed at length his works for centuries now.
@@Mohammed-bz8lt The book was indeed edited by Tim Winter but the chapter where wahdat al-wujud is discussed was written by Toby Mayer, not Tim Winter.