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«"When the sin enters the shin, the tomb of Muhyi al-Din will appear."»
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A coded prophecy that Ottoman tradition ascribes to Ibn Arabi, read as announcing that Selim (with *sin*) would enter Damascus (*Sham*, with *shin*) and restore his tomb, as he did in 1517. It comes from *al-Shajara al-numaniyya*, an apocalyptic work attributed to him without foundation; it appears in none of his authentic writings.
المصدر: Addas, Claude. Ibn ʿArabī ou la quête du Soufre Rouge. París: Gallimard, 1989. Trad. inglesa: Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ʿArabī. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.
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كلمات موثّقة لـIbn Arabi
«لقد صار قلبي قابلاً كل صورةٍ / فمرعى لغزلانٍ وديرٌ لرهبانِ // وبيتٌ لأوثانٍ وكعبةُ طائفٍ / وألواحُ توراةٍ ومصحفُ قرآنِ // أدينُ بدينِ الحبِّ أنّى توجّهتْ / ركائبُه فالحبُّ ديني وإيماني»
Tarjuman al-ashwaq, oda XI, vv. 13–15 (trad. Nicholson, 1911, pp. 66–67). En el comentario, el autor precisa que esa religión del amor es prerrogativa de los musulmanes, por ser Muhammad el amado de Dios.
«My Beloved is three although He is One, even as the (three) Persons (of the Trinity) are made one Person in essence.»
Tarjuman al-ashwaq, oda XII, v. 4 (trad. Nicholson, 1911, p. 70)
«Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you disbelieve in all the rest; otherwise, you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognize the real truth of the matter. God, the omnipresent and omnipotent, is not limited by any one creed, for He says, 'Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah.'»
Fusus al-hikam (doctrina del «dios creado en las creencias»), citado en la versión de Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam (1914), cap. III. Nicholson no indica el capítulo; la tradición de comentario lo sitúa en el engaste de Hud.