5.1.6.7 - The Mosulean Descendings (Mosul, 601/1205)

In Mosul this year, Shaykh Muhyiddin wrote the book “The Mosulean Descendings in the Mysteries of Purity, Prayers and the Original Days”: al-Tanazzulât al-Maw?iliyya fi maarifat Asraar al-Taharaat wal-Salawaat wal-Ayyam al-Asliyya, which deals with the esoteric meanings of ablution, prayer and the relationship of the “original days” with the times of prayers.

[Al-Tanazzulat al-Mosuliyya in Ibn al-Arabi’s hand writing.]Al-Tanazzulat al-Mosuliyya in Ibn al-Arabi’s hand writing.

It it worth mentioning here that Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi has a unique view in the meanings and types of days and their relationship with each other, that has not been mentioned by any other thinkers or philosophers. He considers that there are three types of days: the circulated days, which are the same normal days that we witness and count, and the take-out days mentioned in the verse in Surat Yassin: ((a sign for them is the night where We take the day out of it and Lo they are in darkness [37])), and they are related with the normal days according to some complex relation that the Shaykh mentioned in a dedicated book called: “Ayyam al-Shaan”: the days of task. The third type of days are the intertwined days, which are the original days intended in the title of this book above, and they are also explained in Ayyam al-Shaan.

This unique and complex view of time and creation has been explained in the book series: the Single Monad Model of the Cosmos, the Duality of Time Theory, and Ultimate Symmetry.