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4.5 - The Full Text of the Leave to the Triumphant King

(The following is the text of the Leave written by Sheikh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi to the Triumphant King, according to the manuscript of Shehid Ali Pasha No. 2796, which is written in the hand of Ahmed, the son of Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Caesar who is the director of the Library of Sheikh Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi. This manuscript contains also some comments quote after him, which might mean that it was written before his death in 621 AH. We have also compared many of the most recent manuscripts in addition to the various editions described above.)

(All that is between parentheses has been added to the original text for clarification or to add information about the sheikhs and some titles based on other manuscripts or from the books of history Hadith narrators. We did that after careful searching in dozens of references, but we don't need to mention the details of these many books in order to reduce the use of the margins that will distort the flow of the text. Therefore, we also placed the additions between brackets within the original text.)

In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful and the All-Merciful

Thanks to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.

I say, and I am Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad bin al-Arabi al-Ta'i al-Hatimi, and this is my utterance:

After seeking the guidance of Allah, I authorized the sultan, the Triumphant King, Shihab al-Din (and on the margin, the transcriber specifies that in another version: Bahaa al-Din) Ghazi, son of the late, and -by Allah's will- forgiven, King al-ʿAādil Abu Bakr bin Ayoub, and his children, and all those who realized my Leave (in some of the late copies, as well as in the edition of Badawi: my Life) to narrate after me all that I have narrated after my sheikhs, by reading, hearing, handling, writing or authorization, and all that I have written and classified of all types of knowledge, and what I have of prose and poetry, on the condition that is accepted amongst the people of this matter (including honesty and sincerity in transferring and narrating), and I have uttered this Leave when I wrote these lines, at the beginning of Muharram, in the year thirty-two and six hundred, in the protected Damascus.

In his call (instidʿâʾ), he (i.e. the Triumphant King) had asked me to mention what I could remember of the names of my sheikhs and some of my narrations and the titles of my works. Hence, I have answered his call, may Allah benefit us and him with knowledge, and make us and him amongst those people, for He is a Generous Guardian.

4.5.1- (List of Some of His Sheikhs)

4.5.2- (List of His Books)