![]() ![]() Ibn `Arabi's distinctive philosophy of the Oneness of the Many or Diversity within Unity is an insight that will provide the basis for such mystical grounding (Chittick 1998, 169). ![]() ![]() Ibn `Arabi's vision offers a mystical grounding for dialogue among religious traditions, echoing the forms of dialogue identified by contemporary scholars and practitioners of interreligious dialogue. ![]() This mystical unveiling, found in Ibn `Arabi's vision of The Universal Tree and Four Birds, appears in his work entitled, Cosmic Unification in the presence of essential witnessing, through the assembling of the Human Tree and the Four Spiritual Birds. Ibn `Arabi says, "The God whom you perceive directly through mystical unveiling is not the God that you can comprehend through rational thought.The judgments of mystical unveiling have an immeasurable basis and you will be able to see Him in every article of faith" (Kakaie 2011). Ibn `Arabi, a twelfth century Sufi mystic, believes a mystic possesses an expansion of the heart similar to that of God-a heart that is accepting of all who speak of and believe in Him. Brother Steindle-Rast states, "Never before in history is it more urgent for all of us to learn the language of the mystics than in our time, when division threatens to destroy us" (Steindle-Rast 1996, x). Mysticism is at the heart of dialogue among religions. ![]()
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