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One of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in Islamic history, Shaykh Muhyuddin Ibn Arabi and his thought set the intellectual foundation for the Ottomans, Mughals and many other Islamic civilisation.s Born and raised in Andalusia, he lived an eventful life, culminating in his writings and travels which are in force until today. What is the reality of this great man many have seen in the famed television show, Ertugrul?
00:00-09:42 Introduction
9:42 We all have a divine mystery and have been placed as khalifa of creation
10:39 Animals in world of impulse/instinct, angels in world of spiritual reality without free choice
11:20 Humans are partly from animal as well as angelic worlds
12:00 We are forced to be free; can block out spiritual condition (atheism)
12:34 (Surat Al-An’am 6:33) Mushrikun of Makkah knew it was truth but could not integrate it with fear of losing place in dunya
14:54 Reality should be in our order but most of us are superficial
16:32 Tastiq (ascent (of status)) that takes place when evidence is seen
18:18 Hoping to receive some barakah of Shaykh Al Akbar ibn ‘Arabi just by mentioning his name
19:53 West will open their hearts to Islam through Ibn ‘Arabi (obsessed with mind but lost spirit)
22:24 Nobody in history of ulema has encompassed so many dimensions of human experience
26:51 LGBTQIA+: gender is merely manifestation in lower world which is part and parcel of metaphysical world - union results in generation of new level of being
29:44 Born in 1165; lived at time where Islam attacked from all angles
30:40 Born in Spain (Al-Andalus); Cordoba and native Seville were taken around his time of death
31:25 Lived through conquer of Jerusalem and then subsequent loss
32:25 Mongols moving through Asia but did not make it to Baghdad
32:49 Died in 1240 (Mongols had made it to Iran)
34:26 Ibn Arabi considered to be an ocean of divine secret
35:40 Fatah is witnessing divine reality
37:06 Ibn Arabi’s father was prominent political figure
41:02 Before embarking on world expedition, had extraordinary vision
42:25 Openings of significance bc others are able to recognize and receive clarity from them
43:34 Not an alema on earth that comes close to knowledge levels he had, known as a mystic
43:45 Studied with all great mashaykh of his time (asaneed and ejazzat testimony to this)
44:27 Settled in Damascus where he is now buried
45:40 Widely accepted by Sufis bc his system of relationship to other level made perfect sense
46:35 Other philosophers were limited by their minds
48:03 Aim of explaining this lifestory: realizing our deen is truth and has achieved highest level of explanation and truth that is humanly possible
48:23 Figures we have in our tradition, other traditions cannot even begin to imagine
51:36 Great awliya are inheritors of Rasul (to bridge message from God to man)
55:40 Uninformed critics believe he says world is God
56:00 Ibn Arabi’s message: world has no reality except by will of God and no existence without God
57:20 Confusion arises amongst those not well-versed in Sufi traditions
58:20 Contradictions do not exist; further dimensions experienced which uninformed cannot grasp
59:43 Hidden depths of Quran & Sunnah revealed which is hidden from most
1:01:25 Plunged depths of Rasul, unknown to most
1:01:45 We mustn’t forget that our limited understanding is not the reality
1:11:37 Great sufis of the past who made Islam what it is today
Speaker Biography:
Ustadh Hasan Spiker is a philosopher and comparative scholar of Islamic, Greek, and modern thought. Spiker spent twelve years studying the Islamic sciences in the Middle East, primarily under the tutelage of the Iraqi sage and theologian al-Sayyid Quṣayy Abū al-Siʿd. Upon his return to the United Kingdom, Spiker entered the University of Cambridge where he completed his MPhil, and is currently carrying out his doctoral research, in philosophy. From 2014-2022 Spiker was a researcher on Tabah Foundation’s ‘Classification of the Sciences’ project, widely lauded as one of the most significant contemporary attempts to renew the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of traditional Islamic philosophical thought. His main areas of study in Islamic thought are i) the intersection of ʿilm al-kalām (Muslim theology), Avicennan philosophy, and ʿilm al-taḥqīq (experiential metaphysics), as well as ii) the metaphysical foundations of ethics; in Greek thought, the Neoplatonic critique of Aristotelian immanentism; and in modern thought, the philosophy of Kant, the metaphysics of freedom, and the possibility of metaphysics. He joined Zaytuna College as a lecturer in philosophy and logic in 2022, and as of 2023, serves as a faculty member at Usul Academy.