Question: What is opinion of your Eminence regarding the path of Ibn Arabi? Was he a devotee of Ahlulbayt or not? Answer: In the name of the most Exalted; Ibn Arabi in his book Futuhat al-Makkiyyah considers himself dispensed with the knowledge of Imam of the time, (1) and introduces God as…
Read More »Romantic attraction to people of one’s own sex is often accompanied by aversion to the opposite sex. Mulla Sadra (d. 1641) goes to great lengths to justify love for young adolescent boys. His book “Asfar-e-Arbaa” is his major contribution to Neoplatonism, and it is a cumbersome reading full of repetitions, misinformed speculations,…
Read More »Ancient philosophy was a collection of what so-called wise men of ancient times thought about the world, most of which was incorrect. Problems of theology and abstract ideas of ontology were placed under metaphysics, and the poetic speculations about the outside world were collected under physics, which had little in common with…
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