شمس المغرب - سيرة لأكبر محي الدين ابن العربي ومذهبه

The science of Time is a noble science, that reveals the secret of Eternity. Only the Elites of Sages may ever come to know this secret. It is called the First Age, or the Age of ages, from which time is emerging.

Ibn al-Arabi [The Meccan Revelations: Volume I, page 156. - Trns. Mohamed Haj Yousef]

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon. How much it can fill your room, depends on the windows !

Jalaluddin Rumi [The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks - -]

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,... Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit, shall lure it back to cancel half a Line. Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Omar Khayyam [- - trns. Edward Fitzgerald]

As a result of the original divine manifestation, all kinds of motions are driven by Love and Passion. Who could possibly not instantly fall in love with this perfect and most beautiful harmony! Beauty is desirable for its own essence, and if the Exalted (Real) did not manifest in the form of beauty, the World would not have appeared out into existence.

paraphrased from: Ibn al-Arabi [The Meccan Revelations: II.677.12 - trsn. Mohamed Haj Yousef]

Allah is Beautiful, and He loves beauty.

Hadith by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) [Sahih Muslim - 131. - -]

The time of anything is its presence; but I am not in time, and You are not in time; so I am Your time, and You are my time!

Ibn al-Arabi [The Meccan Revelations: III.546.16 - tans. Mohamed Haj Yousef]

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Jalaluddin Rumi [The Essential Rumi - trns. Coleman Barks]

Because He loves beauty, Allah invented the World with ultimate perfection, and since He is the All-Beautiful, He loved none but His own Essence. But He also liked to see Himself reflected outwardly, so He created (the entities of) the World according to the form of His own Beauty, and He looked at them, and He loved these confined forms. Hence, the Magnificent made the absolute beauty --routing in the whole World-- projected into confined beautiful patterns that may diverge in their relative degrees of brilliance and grace.

paraphrased from: Ibn al-Arabi [The Meccan Revelations: IV.269.18 - trans. Mohamed Haj Yousef]