The Openings Revealed in Makkah, Volume 1 (Books 1 & 2) by Ibn Arabi
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Book 1
Chapter 1: On maʿrifah of the Spirit from whom I took from a segmentation of his configured body what I was made to write into this book, and of the mysteries there were between me and him.
Chapter 2: On maʿrifah of the step-levels of the letters and the vowels in the cosmos, and what they have of the Beautiful Divine Names, and maʿrifah of the words which may seem to be declaring God similar to creation, and maʿrifah of knowledge, the knower, and the known.
Book 2
Chapter 3: On the tanzīh (transcendence) of the True beyond what is enfolded in the words which are applied to Him in His Book and on the tongue of His Messenger which may seem to be a likening and a declaring of the corporeality of the Divine.
Chapter 4: On the reason for the beginning of the world; and its configuration, and the step-levels of the Beautiful Names in the world.
Chapter 5: On maʿrifah of mysteries of bismiʾllāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm - from one perspective, not from every perspective.
Chapter 6: On maʿrifah of the beginning of the spirit-being creation, and who was the first to come into existence there, and whence he came into existence, and for what he came into existence, and from what template he came into existence, and for whose sake he came into existence, and what is his end goal. And maʿrifah of the orbits of the greater world and the lesser.
Chapter 7: On maʿrifah of the beginning of the human bodies, and he is the last species created in the greater world, and the last kind of reproducing beings.
Chapter 8: On maʿrifah of the Earth, which was created from the leftover fermented clay of Adam . She is called a True Earth. And the story of some of the strange and wondrous things in her.
Chapter 9: On maʿrifah of the flame-mixed, fire-based spirits.
Chapter 10: On maʿrifah of the orbit of the Kingdom; and the first thing separated in the orbit from the first created being, and the last thing separated in the orbit from the last thing separated in turn from that thing; and why the place separated out is populated by both of the two; and God preparing this kingdom until her great king comes; and the rank of the people between the time of Jesus and Muḥammad .
Chapter 11: On maʿrifah of our fathers who are higher ones and our mothers who are lower ones.
Chapter 12: On maʿrifah of the orbit of the master of the world, Muḥammad and that the time period in his moment circles around to the shape it was on the day God created it.
Chapter 13: On maʿrifah of the bearers of the Throne; and they are Isrāfīl, Adam, Mīkāʾīl, Ibrāhīm, Gabriel, and Muḥammad, and Riḍwān and Mālik .
Chapter 14: On maʿrifah of the mysteries of the prophets-friends, and the Pivots of the communities, from Adam to Muḥammad - and that the Pivot is 1 since God created him, and he does not die, and where his dwelling place is.
Chapter 15: On maʿrifah of the breaths, and maʿrifah of their Pivots (aqṭāb, sg. quṭb) who are verified by them, and their mysteries.
Chapter 16: On maʿrifah of the lower alighting places, and the knowings based on the newly created universe, and the origination of a recognition of God based on them, and maʿrifah of the four Cardinal Pegs, and the seven persons who are the Alternates, and who among the upper spirits places them in charge, and the arrangement of their orbits.
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Book 3
Chapter 17: On maʿrifah of the transfer of cosmic sciences, and fragments of the Divine sciences, the replenishers, the originals.
Chapter 18: On maʿrifah of the knowledge of the ones who pray at night (the tahajjud), and what is connected to tahajjud of issues, and its valuation in the step-levels of knowledges, and what comes from it of sciences in the existence of being.
Chapter 19: On the reason for the deficit of knowledges and their increases; and His word, Say: Lord, increase me in knowledge; and his word, ‘God does not constrain knowledge by removal, removing it from the chests of the knowledgeable ones - but He constrains it by constraining (taking away in death) the knowledgeable ones’; the ḥadỉth continues.
Chapter 20: On maʿrifah of knowledge of Jesus, and where it comes from, and to where it goes finally, and how. And whether it is connected to the ‘lengthwise’ of the world, or its ‘widthwise’, or both.
Chapter 21: On maʿrifah of the three knowledges of existence, and the interpolation of one of them into another.
Chapter 22: On maʿrifah of the manzil and the manāzil (pl.), and the arrangement of the whole of cosmic sciences.
Chapter 23: On maʿrifah of the protected Pivots, and mysteries of the manāzil of their protection.
Chapter 24: On maʿrifah of what comes from the existence knowledges, and what is included in it of strange wonders, and who reaches them among the people, and the step-levels of their Pivots, and mysteries of the sharing between two Laws, and the hearts desirous of the breaths, and their origin, and at what number end their manāzil.
Chapter 25: On maʿrifah of the Peg singled out, of lengthened age. And mysteries of the Pivots who are differentiated into four kinds among the people. A secret of the manzil and the manāzil, and who enters it (the secret) among the people.
Chapter 26: On maʿrifah of the Pivots of symbols, and their signaling their secrets and their knowledges.
Chapter 27: On maʿrifah of the Pivots of ‘Come connect, I intend your being connected to me’ - it is from a manzil of the light world - and their mysteries.
Chapter 28: On maʿrifah of the Pivots of ‘Do you not see how?’
Chapter 29: On maʿrifah of a mystery of Salmān the Farsī, who was attached to the people of the House, and the Pivots from whom he inherited, and a maʿrifah of their mysteries.
Chapter 30: On maʿrifah of the first degree and the second degree among the Pivots who are the composite retinue.
Chapter 31: On maʿrifah of the origins of the composite retinue.
Chapter 32: On maʿrifah of the Pivots who oversee, among the people of the second division of the composite retinue.
Chapter 33: On maʿrifah of the Pivots of intentionality and their mysteries, and the mechanics of their origins.
Chapter 34: On maʿrifah of a person who verifies for oneself at the level of the breaths; and specified by these breaths are matters I shall mention.
Chapter 35: On maʿrifah of this person who is verified in the manzil of the breaths and his mysteries after his death.
Chapter 36: On maʿrifah of the Jesus ones and their Pivots, and their origins.
Chapter 37: On maʿrifah of the Jesus Pivots and their mysteries.
Chapter 38: On maʿrifah of the one among the Pivots who is given to see the Muḥammadī station but does not attain it.
Chapter 39: On maʿrifah of the manzil to which the friend is descended when the True exiles him, may God heal us and you, and what is connected to this manzil of strange wonders and Divine sciences, and maʿrifah of mysteries of the Pivots of this manzil.
Chapter 40: On maʿrifah of a manzil neighboring partial knowledge (of existence sciences), and its arrangement, and its strange wonders, and its Pivots.
Book 4
Chapter 41: On maʿrifah of the people of the night and their different degrees and their distinctions in their step-levels, and mysteries of their Pivots.
Chapter 42: On maʿrifah of chivalry and the young warriors, and their stations and their degrees, and mysteries of their Pivots.
Chapter 43: On maʿrifah of a group of Pivots who are extreme ascetics, and the general ones in that station.
Chapter 44: On maʿrifah of the bahālīl, and their leaders in bahlalah.
Chapter 45: On maʿrifah of one who returns after arriving, and who makes him return.
Chapter 46: On maʿrifah of the little knowledge and who gets it among the integrated ones.
Chapter 47: On maʿrifah of mysteries and a description of the lower alighting places, and their stations, and how the ʿárif rests upon his remembrance of his beginning f, and his yearning for her despite the great height of his station, and what the secret is which is given in tajallì to him so he will be called to that.
Chapter 48: On maʿrifah of ‘It is like this for that’.
Chapter 49: On maʿrifah of ‘I have found a Breath of al-Raḥmān from Yemen,’ and maʿrifah of this manzil and its Men.
Chapter 50: On maʿrifah of Men who are confused and unable.
Chapter 51: On maʿrifah of the Men among the people of extreme asceticism who have verified for themselves a manzil of the Breath of al-Raḥmān.
Chapter 52: On maʿrifah of the reason the person of kashf will flee from the unseen to the seen world.
Chapter 53: On maʿrifah of what is cast to the aspirant from his self, such as daily lessons to be practiced before the advent of the shaykh.
Chapter 54: On maʿrifah of the ishārāt (gestures).
Chapter 55: On maʿrifah of the satanic khawāṭir (incoming thoughts).
Chapter 56: On maʿrifah of investigation (istiqrāʾ) and its validity and invalidity.
Chapter 57: On maʿrifah of the arrival of ilhām (inspiration) in one of the indicative categories, and maʿrifah of the soul.
Chapter 58: On maʿrifah of the mustadillīn people of ilhām and maʿrifah of Divine knowledge effusing over the heart; thus it differentiates his khawāṭir and the uncontrolled utterances coming with the incoming thoughts.
Chapter 59: On maʿrifah of the time period, the being, and the predestined measurement.
Chapter 60: On maʿrifah of the elements, and the dominion of the upper universe over the lower universe, and in which orbit is the presence of this universe of human beings compared with the orbits of the outermost celestial bodies, and which spirit-being watches us.
Chapter 61: On maʿrifah of Jahannam and the greatest of the created beings tormented in her, and maʿrifah of some of the upper world.
Chapter 62: On maʿrifah of the step-levels of the Fire.
Chapter 63: On maʿrifah of the remnant of people in the barzakh between this world and the general Resurrection.
Chapter 64: On maʿrifah of the Day of Arising and her manāzil, and the hows of the general Resurrection.
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Book 5
Chapter 65: On maʿrifah of the Garden, and her houses, and her steps, and what is connected by this chapter.
Chapter 66: On maʿrifah of a secret of the Law (sharìʿah, f), outwardly and inwardly, and which Divine name brought her into being.
Chapter 67: On maʿrifah of No god but God, Muḥammad is the Messenger of God.
Chapter 68: On maʿrifah of mysteries of purity.
Book 6
Chapter 69: On maʿrifah of mysteries of prayer.
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Book 7
Chapter 69: On maʿrifah of mysteries of prayer. (Continued from previous Book 6)
Book 8
Chapter 70: On maʿrifah of mysteries of charity.