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God is Wider...


"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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