Kitāb al-Tajalliyāt

The Book of Theophanies

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A kaleidoscope of over 100 theophanic visions on a range of subjects, often involving dialogues with deceased Muslim saints such as Sahl al-Tustarī, Junayd and al-Hallāj. Written ca. 606/1210, the book is a meditation on the nature of the barzakh, the world of the afterlife.

Tajalli 58: the revelation of the ocean of Oneness

Oneness is an ocean and a shore: the shore can be communicated, the ocean cannot; the shore can be known, the ocean can only be experienced.

I stood upon the shore of this ocean, and then casting off my garment, I dived into its midst. I was tossed to and fro by its waves, preventing me from swimming, so that I remained unmoving through it, not through myself.

Then I beheld al-Junayd, and I embraced him and kissed him, whereupon he welcomed me and placed me at my ease. I asked him: “How long have you been here?”, to which he replied: “When I stood in the midst of this ocean, I forgot all me and time.”

We embraced each other, and we plunged in, dying the everlasting death, wishing for neither life nor resurrection.

See also...
Ibn ʿArabi in the East (1204–40)