A Longing of Being
“No less than one's life is needed / if the call of the Distant One is to be heeded.”
“No less than one's life is needed / if the call of the Distant One is to be heeded.”
This editorial from Sacred Web 34 reflects on the Hadith: “There is a polish for everything that taketh away rust; and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.”
In an age of misunderstanding about the compatibility of Islam & Christianity, this essay examines some key correspondences in the metaphysics of the “Greatest Shaykh”, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, and those of the Church’s greatest philosopher, the “Doctor Angelicus”, St. Thomas Aquinas.