The Meccan Revelations, volume I Quotes

“We can only affirm that there is an Essence and that It cannot not be. Our own existence is somehow the shadow of Its existence. All created things are equal in their existence, so all things manifest the Essene inasmuch as they exist.”
― Ibn Arabi, The Meccan Revelations, volume I

“In reality there is no existing entity that
possesses freedom, since the correlations
prevent that. The reality of freedom is
found only in the fact that the Essence
is "Independent of the worlds" (Ko-
ran 3:97), even though the cosmos be-
comes manifest from It and through It,
not through anything else. Since the Es-
sence is "Independent of the worlds," It is
free, while the cosmos is poor and needy
toward It. The creatures of the cosmos
have no freedom whatsoever.”
― Ibn Arabi, The Meccan Revelations, volume I

“Sufism”
― Ibn ʿArabi, The Meccan Revelations

“People imagine that they believe in God. In fact, they believe in God's self-disclosure to themselves, and this always takes the shape of the receptacle. Junayd said, "The water takes on the color of its cup." But what is God's self-disclosure to the individual if not the individual himself? In other words, no one worships God as he is in himself; everyone worships God as he perceives Him in himself. More briefly: No one worships anyone but himself.”
― Ibn Arabi, The Meccan Revelations, volume I

“What we actually observe in the universe
is either Being colored by the properties
of the nonexistent things, or the things
made manifest by Being. But we never
see the things themselves, since that
which is nonexistent is not there to be
seen; nor do we see God Himself, since
God in Himself is beyond all perception
and understanding. The cosmos is He/
not He. In the last analysis we see only
the properties of the divine names, which
are the qualities and attributes intrinsic to
Being.”
― Ibn Arabi, The Meccan Revelations, volume I