Category: Scholars
Signs for Wise People
The following excerpt is taken from “1001 Inventions” pg. 300: Download Link References: T S Al-Hassani, Salim. (2007). 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World. http://www.islamicweblibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/1001_Inventions.pdf
Slokas (Couplets) of the Great Mystic Baba Farid (Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar)
Farid, your body’s on stake, head’s a cage, crows peck feet: if God comes even at this late stage… happiness I’ll meet! Last night I was sad, afterwards of my beautiful Lover I thought… I said I’d do all to get to Him: tears ran… sleeve, my Lover caught. Not all hearts are able to […]
A Short Biography of the Great Mystic Baba Farid (Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar)
The Life, Times & Poetry of Baba Farid The father of Punjabi poetry Baba Farid (1173-1266) was born in the city of Kothiwal, near Dipalpur in the Punjab. It is now called Pak Pattan; the ancient name has been recorded as Ajodhan. It was an important metropolis on the Multan-Delhi route. The day Baba Farid […]
Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), the Father of Evolution
Abu Bakr Muhammed ibn-Arabi (1165-1240), one of foremost interpreters of the Quran, was born in Spain. By the time he was twenty five years old, he was famous throughout the land as a brilliant scholar, a great writer of elegant poetry, and a Sufi of the first order. Between 1193 and 1198, he wrote Uqlatu’l-Mustawfiz […]
The Place of Knowledge and those who Acquire it
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An Answer to the Gross Misrepresentation of Ibn Al-Arabi’s ideas
The following excerpt is taken from “Is Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Ontology Pantheistic?” by Mohammed Rustom pg. 64-67: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Ontology and Pantheism It is worth noting that although there is no medievalArabic equivalent to the English word “pantheism,” in themedieval Islamic world Ibn al-‘Arabī was oftenmisunderstood to be a pantheist. As Alexander Knyshnotes, the Shaykh’s explications […]