Heart and Its Properties from Ibn Arabī’s Viewpoint

Abstract

The truth of Human being according to Ibn Arabī is heart (qalb) that enslaves all man's inner and outer potentialities. Heart is the perfect manifestation of God with all its attributes, such as the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden. As God has no limits, heart also has no limitation and true definition. Heart is an embracing truth whose soul is the perfection of aptitude, whose secret is the Exalted Divine Truth, whose bodily form is the heart pineal, and whose real form is the perfect man. The heart of the perfect man is the absolute Throne for the absolute Qur’an. Ibn Arabī in his interpretation of a Qur’anic verse calls the Prophet Mohammad's heart the Blessed Night (laylat al-qadr) to whom Qur’an was revealed to. In this paper, Ibn Arabī's point of view on Heart and its properties are analysed.

Keywords

• keywords: heart (qalb)
• the throne of god
• qur’an