Quote from The Four Pillars of Spiritual Transformation

The Four Pillars of Spiritual Transformation

by Ibn 'Arabi, translated from the Arabic by Stephen Hirtenstein

Anqa Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom    © 2008      80 pp.

Four Pillars contains translation of selections from Ibn Al'Arabi's Futuhat al-Mekkiya: Meccan Revelations and Hilyat al-Abdal: The Adornment of the Friends of God, as well as an additional fourteen pages with the Hilyat al-Abdal in Arabic.

Here is a selection on the practice of Silence:

Silence (samt)

"There are two kinds of silence: firstly, silence of the tongue, which consists of not speaking of other than God the Exalted with other than God the Exalted, altogether; and secondly, silence of the heart, which consists of refraining from all thought occurring in the soul that concerns any created thing at all. The one whose tongue is silent, even if his heart is not, lightens his burden. When someone's tongue and heart are both silent, his innermost consciousness (sirr) is manifest and his Lord reveals Himself to him." (p. 33)

-- submitted by Jennifer Knight


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