The Openings Revealed in Makkah, Volume 7 (Books 13 & 14) by Ibn Arabi
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Book 13
Chapter 74: On tawbah.
Chapter 75: On leaving tawbah.
Chapter 76: On struggle.
Chapter 77: On leaving struggle.
Chapter 78: On retreat.
Chapter 79: On leaving retreat.
Chapter 80: On disassociation.
Chapter 81: On leaving disassociation.
Chapter 82: On fleeing.
Chapter 83: On leaving fleeing.
Chapter 84: On taqwá of God.
Chapter 85: On taqwá characterized by the veil and the curtain.
Chapter 86: On taqwá of the worldly limits.
Chapter 87: On taqwá of the Fire.
Chapter 88: On maʿrifah of mysteries of the principles of the roots of the Law.
Chapter 89: On maʿrifah of the nawāfil in general.
Chapter 90: On maʿrifah of mysteries of the required and the voluntary.
Chapter 91: On maʿrifah of extreme asceticism and its mysteries.
Chapter 92: On maʿrifah of leaving extreme asceticism.
Chapter 93: On maʿrifah of zuhd and its mysteries.
Chapter 94: On maʿrifah of a station leaving zuhd.
Chapter 95: On maʿrifah of mysteries of generosity and liberality and munificence and preference, for the special and for the non-special, with seeking compensation and leaving it.
Chapter 96: On maʿrifah of silence and its mysteries.
Chapter 97: On maʿrifah of a station of speech and its mysteries.
Chapter 98: On maʿrifah of a station of staying up at night and its mysteries.
Chapter 99: On maʿrifah of a station of sleeping and its mysteries.
Chapter 100: On maʿrifah of a station of fear and its mysteries.
Chapter 101: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving fear and its mysteries.
Chapter 102: On maʿrifah of a station of hope and its mysteries.
Chapter 103: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving hope and its mysteries.
Chapter 104: On maʿrifah of a station of sorrow and its mysteries.
Chapter 105: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving sorrow and its mysteries.
Chapter 106: On maʿrifah of a station of hunger and its mysteries.
Chapter 107: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving hunger and its reasons. (Q has ‘mysteries’).
Book 14
Chapter 108: On maʿrifah of fitnah and shahwat and companionship of the young and the women and taking friends from among them, and when the aspirant makes friends.
Chapter 109: On maʿrifah of the difference between lust and desire, and between the lust which is for us in this world and lust which is for us in the Garden, and the difference between pleasure and lust, and maʿrifah of a station of one who desires and who is desired, and who does not desire and is not desired, and who desires but is not desired, and who does not desire but is desired.
Chapter 110: On maʿrifah of a station of mysteries of humility and lowliness.
Chapter 111: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving humility and lowliness and its mysteries.
Chapter 112: On maʿrifah of opposing the soul f and her mysteries (here and in some of the following chapter titles, ‘of a station’ is omitted).
Chapter 113: On maʿrifah of a station m of helping the soul in her goals and his (its) mysteries.
Chapter 114: On maʿrifah of a station of jealousy and ghabṭ, and what is praiseworthy and blameworthy in the two.
Chapter 115: On maʿrifah of a station of ghībat and its praiseworthy and blameworthy aspects.
Chapter 116: On maʿrifah of a station of contentment f and her mysteries.
Chapter 117: On a maʿrifah of a station of covetousness and envy.
Chapter 118: On maʿrifah of a station of reliance and its mysteries.
Chapter 119: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving reliance.
Chapter 120: On maʿrifah of a station of thankfulness and its mysteries.
Chapter 121: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving thankfulness and its mysteries.
Chapter 122: On maʿrifah of a station of certainty and its mysteries.
Chapter 123: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving certainty and its mysteries.
Chapter 124: On maʿrifah of a station of patience and its divisions, and its mysteries.
Chapter 125: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving patience, and its mysteries.
Chapter 126: On self-awareness and her mysteries (maʿrifah is omitted).
Chapter 127: On leaving awareness and her station and its mysteries.
Chapter 128: On riḍā and its mysteries.
Chapter 129: On leaving riḍā and its mysteries.
Chapter 130: On worship and its mysteries.
Chapter 131: On leaving worship and its mysteries.
Chapter 132: On maʿrifah of a station of evenness and its mysteries.
Chapter 133: On maʿrifah of leaving evenness and its mysteries.
Chapter 134: On maʿrifah of a station of sincerity and its mysteries.
Chapter 135: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving sincerity and its mysteries.
Chapter 136: On maʿrifah of a station of truthfulness and its mysteries.
Chapter 137: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving truthfulness and its mysteries.
Chapter 138: On maʿrifah of a station of shyness and its mysteries.
Chapter 139: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving shyness and its mysteries.
Chapter 140: On maʿrifah of a station of freedom and her mysteries.
Chapter 141: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving freedom and its mysteries.
Chapter 142: On maʿrifah of a station of dhikr and its mysteries.
Chapter 143: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving dhikr and its mysteries.
Chapter 144: On maʿrifah of a station of thinking and its mysteries.
Chapter 145: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving thinking and its mysteries.
Chapter 146: On maʿrifah of a station of chivalry and its mysteries.
Chapter 147: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving chivalry and its mysteries.
Chapter 148: On maʿrifah of a station of firāsat and its mysteries.
Chapter 149: On maʿrifah of a station of khuluq and its mysteries.
Chapter 150: On maʿrifah of a station of jealousy and its mysteries.
Chapter 151: On maʿrifah of a station of leaving jealousy and its mysteries.
Chapter 152: On maʿrifah of a station of authority and its mysteries.
Chapter 153: On maʿrifah of a station of human authority and its mysteries which are included in Divine authority.
Chapter 154: On maʿrifah of a station of angelic authority and its mysteries.
Chapter 155: On maʿrifah of a station of prophecy and its mysteries.
Chapter 156: On maʿrifah of a station of prophecy for humans and its mysteries.
Chapter 157: On maʿrifah of a station of angelic prophecy and its mysteries.
Chapter 158: On maʿrifah of a station of risālat and its mysteries.
Chapter 159: On maʿrifah of a station of risālat for humans and its mysteries.
Chapter 160: On maʿrifah of a station of angelic risālat.
Chapter 161: On maʿrifah of a station which is between prophecy and truth-saying.
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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.