2.4.4.6 - Ibn al-Arabi’s Love to Shaykh al-Mirtuli

Therefore, Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi was greatly attached to his shaykh Abu Imran, and he used to chant some of his poetry for him, and the Shaykh Abu Imran like it. He even asked him to write a poem for him, which Ibn al-Arabi did, and when he read it before him we was fascinated:

I left my fancy for his will, thus I have no passion, and every lover who does not become (like) him is lost.

I sailed the tip of cordiality in the ornament of perishing, thus I crossed the seas of longing with the boat of love.

I then threw the connection of Moses on the shore of contention, until the clear Real called me out of passion:

O declare My servant amongst those knowing Me, and this is the call of the Real in the place of others.

Thus I revised Him when I heard His call, that I have no interest and no intention except:

Your connection, O the Ruler with Whom I am seeking proximity, and I am afraid from the power of separation and abandoning.

Thus He insure of everything and said to me: your thoughts are right and the reward is according to one’s intentions

[Quds: p. 57].

Shaykh Muhyiddin adds in the Holy Spirit that he mentioned this poem in the book of Inzaal al-ghuyإ¬b “کalaa maraatib al-qulإ¬b: “Descending the Unseen on the States of Hearts” (RG 295).