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' Muhyi-al-Din ibn al-'Arabi '...


"Beware of becoming delimited by a specific knotting and disbelieving in everything else, lest great good escape you.... Be in yourself a matter for the forms of all beliefs, for God is wider and more tremendous than that He should be constricted by one knotting rather than another."

Muhyi-al-Din ibn al-'Arabi
Bezels of Wisdom, 113

"He who counsels his own soul should investigate, during his life in this world, all doctrines concerning God. He should learn from whence each possessor of a doctrine affirms the validity of his doctrine. Once its validity has been affirmed for him in the specific mode in which it is correct for him who holds it, then he should support it in the case of him who believes in it."


Muhyi-al-Din ibn al-'Arabi
Meccan Openings, II. 85.11


quoted in William Chittick
Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al'Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity
NY: SUNY, 1994, p. 176

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