I'm a sufi alhamdulillahi, ya sheikh thank you for your effort and honesty but even the people in paradise didn't enter paradise for their deeds, it's only by God's mercy.
Sunni or Shiah if you preach Truth who can reject such wisdom. Submission and acceptance by Allah is most important. We have no right to judge who is superior.
God Blessing be upon you Brother Sayed Moustafa & your family for your remainder & true warning. That's why it is been named Judgement day: every soul will be sorted, every soul knows what they have done. Inshalla God will bestow his mercy & grace & forgiveness upon us in that heavy & unbearable day that is waiting for all of us. The day that our eyes will see everything & everyone that we couldn't see before. God be with you brother
It is delightful to see you teaching Shia about Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra. Long ago, I and a friend studied Tusi's Tajrid with you when you lived in Pomona. I enjoyed those lessons greatly.
The Shia need Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra tremendously. Their work gives Islam the spiritual depth and intellectual rigor needed to be relevant in 2022 and beyond.
Hopefully, you'll also bring your listeners Rumi, Hallaj, and Iqbal, who were giants in their own paths.
Excellent speech very dear Sayed Mustafa Qazwaini clarifying the difference between Mulla Sidra and Ibne Arabians your expert analysis. May Allah ba sadqae 14 Masoomeen AS always bless you and your family with the best!
The important thing to consider about Ibn Arabi is that things are only God in so far as they are expressions of his intellect. This is similar to the platonic concept of the realm of forms or archetypes. So all created things in a conceptual sense are coeternal with God in so far as they are born of his intellect or generated from him. The difference between the divine mind and the mind of the creature is that the creature is temporal. The creature experiences things in a linear fashion one after another while God himself is not beholden to space and time. For him, all things exist in the eternal now or within timelessness. God does not think in a linear fashion like created beings rather his mind contains all possibilities potentialities and information. These potentialities are the archetypes. When things arise in material creation, it is because these archetypes have been given reality. God has in essence imparted his being upon them. So one analogy used by Ibn Arabi is the pure white light that shines through the prism or the Stainglass window which is then fragmented into in numerable colors. Think of the divine light as God’s being. Think of the Stainglass window with it’s numerous colored panels as the archetypes within the mind of God. Without the pure white light, there are no colored lights. So the pure white light shines through the colored panels of the Stainglass window, illuminating them and creating the myriad lights of different colors that are all expressions of the pure white light. The colored lights are distinct from the pure white light but by virtue of being lights, they derive there being from the original white light.
So what does this mean? Well, in terms of the root of my being I am God in the same way that the various colored lights are in one sense the pure white light in different manifestations. But I am not God in essence because in essence God is eternal, unchanging, immutable and beyond space and time. As a creature, I am none of those things so in the most ultimate sense, I am absolutely not God. I am nothing. So far from self exaltation, this is the deepest form of humility. I am literally nothing without one who imparts being on to me through his grace.