2.4.3.15 - The Mountains and the Valleys

Also in the Holy Spirit, Ibn al-Arabi adds: One day I was praying with him at the house of my friend Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Khayyat, known as the starcher (al-”کAإںإںaaؤ’), (mentioned in section 2.2.20.1), and his brother Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Hariri, when the Imam was reciting the chapter of the Quran entitled: The Tiding [Surah 78: An-Naba]. When he came to the place where God says: ((Have We not made the Earth a resting place and the mountains for supports ...)) [Quran, 78:6-7]. At that, I became abstracted from the Imam and his recitation and saw inwardly our Shaykh, Abu Jafar, saying to me:

The resting place is the World and the supports are the believers;

the resting place is the community of the believers and the supports are the gnostics;

the gnostics are the resting place and the prophets are the supports;

the prophets are the resting place and the apostles are the supports;

the apostles are the resting place and then what? He also uttered other spiritual truths.

Then after that my attention returned once more to the reading of the Imam as he was reciting (the end of the Surah), ((... and He speaks aright. That is the true day ...)) [Quran, 78:39].

Ibn al-Arabi adds that after the prayer he asked him about what he had experienced, and found that his thought’s concerning the verse had been the same as he had heard him express in this vision.