The Teachings Of Sufi Master Ibn Arabi In Comparison To Masonic Values

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Summary

TLDRThe video explores the teachings of Ibn Arabi, a renowned Sufi master, philosopher, and poet of the 11th century, drawing parallels with Freemasonry traditions. Ibn Arabi's philosophy focuses on the concept of the 'Unity of Being', suggesting that all entities are mere manifestations of God's divine attributes. The speaker highlights the spiritual journey of self-improvement, connecting to the divine, and achieving enlightenment through an understanding of these teachings. By referring to the Sufi and Masonic philosophies, the speaker stresses the importance of love, unity, and the internal search for divine truth. The aim is to overcome divisions, such as race or religion, and foster a spirit of oneness and mutual respect. The philosophical ideas encourage individuals to look inward for knowledge and peace, emphasizing that God and truth are found within oneself rather than through external separations.

Takeaways

  • 🙏 Ibn Arabi emphasizes the unity of all beings as God's manifestations.
  • 💡 True enlightenment and divine connection are found within ourselves.
  • 🌍 Love, unity, and mutual respect are central to spiritual growth.
  • 🛕 All religions teach similar truths in different ways—love is the universal religion.
  • 🤝 Eliminate divisions of race and creed to achieve oneness.
  • 🔍 Self-awareness and self-improvement are key to understanding divine reality.
  • 📚 Ibn Arabi's journey mirrors the Masonic quest for light and wisdom.
  • 🧐 Reflect on the role of ego and embrace communal living.
  • 🗝 The key to divine truth and peace lies within us, not in external pursuits.
  • 📜 Both Sufi and Masonic philosophies guide toward the same mountaintop of enlightenment.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker introduces the topic of Ibn Arabi, a Sufi master, and the similarities between his teachings and Freemasonry. He intends to discuss how these teachings focus on self-improvement, divine connection, and embodying good conduct, drawing parallels with the Masonic path. Ibn Arabi's background as a revered spiritual figure from 11th-century Muslim-controlled Spain, his education, and his spiritual influence are highlighted.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Ibn Arabi's journey from Spain to the Orient is chronicled, driven by a vision compelling him to seek enlightenment in the East. This journey is akin to the Masonic concept of a 'traveling man.' It was during his travels that Ibn Arabi authored significant works and earned a reputation as a Sufi saint despite contemporary prohibitions. His profound spiritual insights continue to be revered and have influenced various cultural representations, including in popular media.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Central to Ibn Arabi’s philosophy is the 'unity of being,' where all beings are manifestations of God’s attributes, illustrating the notion that God is the sole reality. This idea stresses the interconnectedness and divine origin of all things, aligning with Masonic teachings of universal brotherhood and the search for spiritual enlightenment. The speaker emphasizes overcoming divisions of race and religion by recognizing our shared divinity.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The speaker explores Ibn Arabi’s teachings using various quotes, connecting them to both Sufi and Masonic perspectives, underscoring the importance of not confining God to a single doctrine. This viewpoint echoes universalist ideas that true understanding and divine connection transcend specific religious boundaries. The essence of these teachings advocates for an open-minded and harmonious approach to spiritual and religious truths.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Further exploration of Ibn Arabi's teachings includes the views on self-awareness and self-love as pathways to divine understanding. The narration accentuates that this internal realization diminishes the ego ('I-ness') and fosters unity and self-improvement. The speaker relates these ideas to the Masonic principles of self-discovery and finding authenticity beyond materialistic and superficial pursuits, highlighting spiritual growth.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:31:47

    The presentation concludes by affirming that love transcends religious and cultural confines, encapsulated in Ibn Arabi's notion that love alone is the ultimate faith. This is paralleled with the Masonic belief in universal brotherhood and the importance of transcending personal and societal divisions. The speaker calls for unity and mutual respect, sharing personal insights to solidify the message of universal love and spiritual kinship.

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Video Q&A

  • Who was Ibn Arabi?

    Ibn Arabi was a Sufi master, philosopher, and poet from the 11th century, known for his teachings on divine unity and spiritual enlightenment.

  • What are some teachings of Ibn Arabi?

    Ibn Arabi's teachings focus on the unity of being, the divine nature within all, and self-improvement through love and understanding of the universal truth.

  • How does the speaker relate Ibn Arabi's teachings to Freemasonry?

    The speaker relates the Sufi and Masonic paths by emphasizing self-improvement, unity, and the search for divine light and wisdom in both traditions.

  • What is the main message of Ibn Arabi's teachings?

    The main message is the unity of all beings as manifestations of God and the importance of love, self-awareness, and personal development!

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    greetings and peace i hope you and yours
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    are doing well today wherever you might
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    be watching this from
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    now the title of today's presentation
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    that i would like to do is the teachings
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    of the sufi master ibn arabi
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    in similarity to freemasonry just like
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    how i have covered a roomy in the past
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    and covered the
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    esoteric meanings of a lot of these
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    poems
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    in terms of in self-improvement
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    connecting to the divine
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    and becoming better in your thought
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    action speech
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    and good conduct as a good man which i
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    related to the masonic path as well
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    so i hope you're able to get something
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    from this uh from these teachings in
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    poetry of ibn arabi
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    which i will offer my own esoteric
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    explanation from a masonic and
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    a sufi islamic point of view i hope you
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    like what i have to offer and
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    thank you for watching and always
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    sticking by
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    before we get into ibn arabi's teachings
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    let's look a little bit about his
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    background and who he was and what he
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    stood for in his foundation
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    he was born in muslim-controlled spain
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    at the time in
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    the 11th century and he was revered and
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    celebrated
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    as a mistake as a philosopher as a poet
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    someone who was able to see that there
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    was something more to this world
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    than what it's originally taught to us
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    which is even relevant in today's
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    society
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    and he was born in july 28 1165
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    in southeast of spain when it was under
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    islamic
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    rule under that time and he died in
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    damascus syria
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    in 1240 by the time he reached age 75
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    and he was someone that came from the
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    pure bloodline
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    of the arab tribe of the taei and it was
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    there
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    in seville in spain at that time where
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    he
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    went he underwent like all the training
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    his education
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    for about 30 years studying everything
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    that he could
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    and the older teachers and spiritual
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    masters were so intrigued by him that
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    they took an interest on him
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    and at the time there was uh
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    times where the elders had interviewed
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    him and had exchanges with him
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    and they got so overwhelmed by his love
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    and his
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    um love for god and humanity that even
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    some of them
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    became his disciples in a way that they
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    started revering him
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    and it just goes to show you that
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    whoever almighty god puts the light of
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    education and love in their hearts that
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    we can learn from them
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    if someone is older than you you can
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    learn from them there might
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    be somebody younger than you that might
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    have the answers that you're looking for
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    so this uh scenario of ibn arabi
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    impressing the elders
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    shows that we need to be able to learn
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    from everyone younger or older
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    which is the masonic comparison that i'm
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    making here of meaning on the level
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    of how you have masonic brethren who
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    does
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    doesn't matter what their generational
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    difference is if one can learn from the
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    elder and one can learn from the younger
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    it's one and the same for we are all all
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    one and the end
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    no matter where we come from this is our
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    our our
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    ultimate truth that we must comprehend
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    in our life
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    so at the same time he he was
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    studying he was impressing all of these
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    elders
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    and he started uh going into all of
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    these teachings
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    which over time set him out from his
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    journey
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    where he had a vision that he had to
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    leave spain and go to the east
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    so there we have the traveling man
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    comparison
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    and that's where he went to the orient
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    and then he was
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    there he began his journey and started
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    writing some of his major works
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    which are still around today in a
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    published format
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    and it was there that he spent basically
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    most of his life
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    because that was his vision to go from
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    the west to the east to search for light
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    and search for knowledge
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    just like how a mason would and
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    over time when he went to mecca to do
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    the hajj and pilgrimage
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    it was there he met a young girl who was
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    so beautiful and that basically reminded
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    him of sophia
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    which is wisdom and this was basically a
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    comparison between
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    dante and beatrice and ibn arabi
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    wrote a lot of poetry on love similar to
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    rumi
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    which is for the beloved god and also a
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    beloved if someone is your other half
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    depends on the interpretation of how you
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    see it
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    but this girl that he saw in mecca was
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    able to inspire
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    that fire in him and ibn arabi
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    at the same time was being elevated to
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    the rank
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    of of a saint of a sufi saint which at
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    the time was prohibited
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    in in that time era but as we see now
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    that that has become a reality
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    and after he was done with mecca ibn
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    arabi
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    went to egypt he met other teachers
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    and other followers such as suther
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    al-din al-kunavi
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    and then from there he went on to
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    baghdad and aleppo so he was in the
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    orient doing his studies
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    and trying to make his difference in the
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    world and he had gotten so famous
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    in the islamic world that it was that
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    time he started publishing writing
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    teaching others and ultimately
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    from what he was able to teach and leave
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    behind for future generations we can
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    still find today
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    where the character of ibn arabi is even
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    portrayed in archer girl
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    or resurrection orthograph which is a
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    show about the um
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    like the precursor of the ottoman empire
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    and it shows how his influence and his
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    education and how everyone had looked up
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    to him as an elder had spread all over
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    that orient
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    where they were coming to him for advice
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    and education
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    now that we took some time to learn a
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    little bit about him
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    we can understand now what his true
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    foundation was as a teacher
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    evan araby emphasized the unity of being
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    all beings are in reality manifestation
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    of god's attributes
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    if god alone really is the always
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    ultimately lead to him so ibn araby is
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    basically saying that
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    god is the only reality everything else
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    is an illusion
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    and all of our physical selves that have
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    manifested into this reality it's
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    basically
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    an extension of the divinity that's
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    trying to understand itself and trying
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    to find a way back
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    to itself and the attributes meaning you
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    have the 99 names of god
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    in islam and which you know the concept
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    that we have is
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    all those attributes represent a part of
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    the grand architect of the universe
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    you'll have the forgiver you'll have the
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    conqueror
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    you'll have the s supreme all-seeing
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    so all these attributes you have all
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    knowing
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    symbolizes this creator and how that all
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    these religious scriptures are also
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    telling us that god is within our heart
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    closer to us than our jugular vein
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    kingdom of heaven is within
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    so all these teachings are telling us
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    that it's you
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    you are the temple all the answers
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    you're looking for you're going here
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    you're going there
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    ultimately it's all you you come to that
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    realization yourself in your own heart
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    and in your own soul
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    and how even in the masonic brotherhood
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    that's emphasized
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    the unity of being that all religions
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    are teaching you the truth in their own
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    unique way it's the same story that's
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    being taught in their own way
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    hence why every sacred law is attributed
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    as a volume of sacred law because
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    each each path is taking you to the same
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    mountaintop
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    and to go to the mountaintop is where
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    you find the enlightenment
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    and god is the only reality and once we
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    come to that realization what ibn arabi
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    arabic teaching us
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    how can how can i have any hate in my
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    heart for anybody
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    i cannot because the same source that i
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    come from the other individual comes
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    from that same source too
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    and we're all ultimately we come in this
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    cycle
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    we're born in this life we go through
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    the
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    the motions of growing up and going
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    through society
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    and at the end we get buried and then we
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    get back to the source our energy gets
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    returned
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    back to the source from where we came we
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    get it lost in this life
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    of illusions being divided by race
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    religion
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    thinking who's right who's wrong who's
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    superior
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    we're all equal and we're all on the
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    level and we're all walking each other
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    home
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    and that's what ibn araby's emphasizing
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    is that we should continue to love one
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    another for we are all extensions
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    of that divinity experiencing this
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    reality together
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    and uh ultimately it's just um
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    uh i guess you could say it's a stage
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    but at the same time
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    we're here in a spiritual school so we
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    could get better
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    in the aspect of self-improvement
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    now i'd like to go into some of the
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    teachings of ibn arabi
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    mainly some of his quotes and offer my
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    own
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    esoteric interpretation of them from a
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    sufi and masonic point of view to try to
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    relate both paths together
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    first one being do not praise your own
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    faith exclusively
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    so that you disbelieve all the rest if
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    you do this
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    you will miss much good nay you will
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    miss the whole truth of the matter
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    god the omniscient and the omnipresent
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    cannot be confined to any one creed for
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    he stays in the quran
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    wheresoever ye turn there is the face of
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    allah
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    everybody praises what he knows his god
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    is his own creature
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    and in praising it he praises himself
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    which he would not do if you were just
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    for his dislike is based on ignorance
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    now this is very powerful what ibn arabi
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    is saying
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    if you read one of the quotes of manly
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    palmer hall
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    who is a great teacher in in the fields
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    of freemasonry and esotericism
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    manly p hall also says that the true
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    mason is not creed bound
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    for he finds light at every altar such
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    as christ buddha muhammad
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    peace be upon them all he finds a little
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    bit of light everywhere
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    and that's what the concept is teaching
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    us is that
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    the the love of the creator and the
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    grand architect can be found everywhere
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    those that get lost in the mentality
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    that if you don't believe what i believe
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    you're going to hell
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    or your god or my god they lose the plot
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    if you can go to a place where two
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    religions are have opposite tables
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    next to each other and everyone's trying
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    to recruit people to their cause and
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    give pamphlets out
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    and do all that good stuff you could go
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    to one table
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    they'll be teaching you the same exact
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    good moral teachings of how to be a good
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    person
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    how to get close to god all that good
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    stuff but then they will say
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    if you have to believe this exclusively
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    if you don't then you'll be condemned to
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    hell
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    you go to the next table they're
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    teaching the same exact thing and then
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    they're saying the same thing about the
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    opposite table
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    so we have this aspect where most are
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    i guess serving their ego they have this
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    aspect of
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    how many people can i went to my cause
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    or or you know my stuff is right yours
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    is wrong
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    but we realized that everything is won
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    everything comes from that one light why
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    doesn't nobody have a table that's
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    telling people that
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    you're all the same love and respect one
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    another and live in harmony
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    you have even religious texts tells you
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    that respect your neighbor
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    love thy neighbor in holy quran surah 2
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    verse 62 it tells you that it doesn't
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    matter if you're a jewish
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    jew muslim or christian as long as you
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    believe in god do right by yourself and
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    do right by others
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    you shall have no grief of any kind so
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    we need to get this
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    concept that we're all on the level
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    we're all brothers
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    we're all sisters and we're all walking
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    each other home in this
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    short life that we've been given and in
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    the short life if we
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    waste our time focusing on divisions we
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    forget the purpose that we were sent
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    here for
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    we were not sent here to just pay bills
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    pay taxes
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    and conform to the system and just fight
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    with one another and ultimately
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    go go into the next realm we came here
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    to help one another and touch
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    lives and touch hearts that's the goal
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    of the mason
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    that's the goal of the sufi is to be in
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    that aspect of self-improvement
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    and know that that oneness is found in
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    everything
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    and uh you know even in the concept of
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    sufism
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    we believe that before god created the
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    heavens and the earth
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    there was the light of noor muhammad
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    peace be upon him
  • 00:12:46
    and from that light all existence was
  • 00:12:48
    made so if all
  • 00:12:49
    existence came from that one light from
  • 00:12:51
    what my teaching is telling me
  • 00:12:53
    and how can i have any hate in my heart
  • 00:12:55
    for anybody
  • 00:12:56
    and in on what basis do i have the right
  • 00:12:58
    to condemn someone else
  • 00:13:00
    and that's what it is it's submitting to
  • 00:13:03
    the divine will
  • 00:13:04
    when you let go of the resistance and
  • 00:13:06
    you submit
  • 00:13:08
    then everything is given to you and i
  • 00:13:10
    noticed that in my own life experience
  • 00:13:12
    is that when you're in a state where you
  • 00:13:15
    desire nothing from this world and you
  • 00:13:16
    given your will to the divine
  • 00:13:19
    then everything is given to you times 10
  • 00:13:22
    and you shall have no lack in your life
  • 00:13:24
    of anything
  • 00:13:26
    all the good people all the aspects of
  • 00:13:29
    having a stable life having a roof over
  • 00:13:31
    your heads having good food good family
  • 00:13:33
    all that stuff is provided for you
  • 00:13:35
    because you're generating that inner
  • 00:13:37
    frequency from your inner temple
  • 00:13:39
    and attracting that reality around you
  • 00:13:42
    if you choose to be ungrateful and
  • 00:13:43
    miserable
  • 00:13:44
    then that frequency from your inner
  • 00:13:46
    temple will manifest out
  • 00:13:48
    into the outer world so there is that
  • 00:13:50
    aspect of creating your reality
  • 00:13:52
    and the concept of free will that god
  • 00:13:53
    has given all of us
  • 00:13:55
    so we need to take these words to our
  • 00:13:57
    heart especially in today's time
  • 00:14:02
    this one goes i am in love with none
  • 00:14:04
    other than myself
  • 00:14:06
    and my very separation is my union i am
  • 00:14:09
    my beloved and my lover
  • 00:14:11
    i am my knight and my maiden so
  • 00:14:14
    even araby's teaching you a very
  • 00:14:17
    powerful
  • 00:14:18
    uh esoteric teaching here and telling
  • 00:14:21
    you that
  • 00:14:22
    everyone in their life is looking for
  • 00:14:24
    separation of some kind
  • 00:14:26
    and they're they give their power
  • 00:14:28
    outside of their own self not
  • 00:14:30
    knowing that all the realizations and
  • 00:14:32
    knowledge
  • 00:14:33
    is all hidden away in your heart and in
  • 00:14:35
    your mind
  • 00:14:37
    there is a saying right where they say
  • 00:14:38
    that people only use six percent of
  • 00:14:40
    their dna and the rest is locked
  • 00:14:43
    so ibn arabi is saying that
  • 00:14:46
    anything that causes separation is
  • 00:14:48
    ungodly anything that separates you
  • 00:14:50
    from others from your own self no the
  • 00:14:53
    concept of knowing thyself and you know
  • 00:14:55
    thy lord
  • 00:14:56
    is it will put you on that aspect of
  • 00:14:58
    becoming better
  • 00:15:00
    and in order to love somebody else you
  • 00:15:03
    have to love yourself
  • 00:15:04
    in order to love your family you have to
  • 00:15:06
    love yourself in order to love god
  • 00:15:07
    you love yourself because why we're all
  • 00:15:10
    mirror reflections of each other
  • 00:15:12
    any person you meet in your life no
  • 00:15:15
    matter what phase your life is going
  • 00:15:16
    through
  • 00:15:17
    is always going to be a reflection of
  • 00:15:19
    your past present and future
  • 00:15:21
    because it's those same mirrors that are
  • 00:15:23
    coming back to you
  • 00:15:24
    and that's the concept why in all of the
  • 00:15:27
    holy scriptures god always
  • 00:15:29
    addresses itself as we it's not i it's
  • 00:15:32
    not my or me it's we
  • 00:15:34
    because it's all of us collectively
  • 00:15:36
    we're an extension
  • 00:15:38
    of that uh divinity that came here to
  • 00:15:40
    experience life together
  • 00:15:43
    and we're here to love one another and
  • 00:15:45
    find our way back to this reality
  • 00:15:48
    and that's why it's saying that you are
  • 00:15:50
    your own you have to hold stock on your
  • 00:15:52
    own
  • 00:15:53
    anything you do in your life such as how
  • 00:15:55
    masonry says that you only get out what
  • 00:15:57
    you put into it
  • 00:15:59
    and how in the holy quran it says that
  • 00:16:01
    man can only have in his life what he
  • 00:16:03
    strives for
  • 00:16:04
    so you got to put in the work it's you
  • 00:16:06
    that have to do it
  • 00:16:08
    you get up and go and take care of your
  • 00:16:10
    family you get up and do
  • 00:16:11
    everything and because you are are the
  • 00:16:15
    maker of your reality in a way if you
  • 00:16:18
    choose to just sit down and do nothing
  • 00:16:20
    nothing will come to you you have to put
  • 00:16:21
    in the work
  • 00:16:23
    and that's what ibn arabie's teaching
  • 00:16:24
    you on an esoteric level
  • 00:16:26
    and on the aspect of building your
  • 00:16:28
    character and self-improvement
  • 00:16:30
    that hold stock in yourself hold faith
  • 00:16:32
    in yourself know yourself
  • 00:16:34
    and that's why you'll know all the
  • 00:16:36
    reality around you for what it is
  • 00:16:40
    this one goes i follow the way of love
  • 00:16:43
    and where love's caravan takes his path
  • 00:16:46
    there is my religion my faith now this
  • 00:16:49
    is very touching to me on a personal
  • 00:16:51
    level
  • 00:16:52
    because i always saw humanity as one
  • 00:16:54
    united body
  • 00:16:56
    and i always saw love in my heart for
  • 00:16:58
    all humanity
  • 00:16:59
    when i came to the west at a young age i
  • 00:17:02
    saw the love for all human
  • 00:17:04
    beings i used to go to the bible classes
  • 00:17:06
    on the same day
  • 00:17:07
    then i used to go to the quran classes
  • 00:17:09
    on the same day
  • 00:17:11
    then i used to go to the sikh gurdwaras
  • 00:17:13
    closer to my home
  • 00:17:14
    where i would see them feed the people
  • 00:17:16
    for free twice a day every
  • 00:17:18
    day and since then even they're still
  • 00:17:20
    doing it now
  • 00:17:22
    and it just goes to show you that where
  • 00:17:24
    you find love
  • 00:17:25
    that's where you find god and where you
  • 00:17:28
    find hatred or perversion of any kind
  • 00:17:31
    that's where the element of darkness
  • 00:17:33
    exists and that's why
  • 00:17:35
    i tell people that anything that causes
  • 00:17:37
    disunity is ungodly
  • 00:17:39
    whether it's portrayed by any religious
  • 00:17:42
    leader
  • 00:17:42
    anyone interpreting the text for their
  • 00:17:44
    own benefit you gotta go
  • 00:17:46
    where there's only unity being professed
  • 00:17:49
    love is being professed and brotherhood
  • 00:17:51
    is being professed
  • 00:17:52
    that is the true path of the grand
  • 00:17:54
    architect and into your own heart into
  • 00:17:56
    your own physical temple of
  • 00:17:57
    self-improvement
  • 00:17:59
    and the aspect of finding light wherever
  • 00:18:01
    you can take a little bit good from
  • 00:18:03
    everyone apply that to your life where
  • 00:18:04
    they're all teaching you the truth
  • 00:18:06
    and that's what ibn arabi is saying that
  • 00:18:09
    anywhere where you find love that's
  • 00:18:11
    where you'll find the truth
  • 00:18:12
    anyone that shows you love without any
  • 00:18:15
    motive or any benefit of any kind
  • 00:18:17
    that's where you'll find true love true
  • 00:18:19
    friendship
  • 00:18:20
    and true brotherhood and true
  • 00:18:22
    companionship
  • 00:18:24
    and that's what you must strive to gain
  • 00:18:26
    in your life
  • 00:18:27
    to be surrounded by those that teach you
  • 00:18:29
    in their love
  • 00:18:30
    and you have love to offer them that is
  • 00:18:33
    the greatest wealth
  • 00:18:34
    that you can carry in your life most
  • 00:18:37
    people that are rich
  • 00:18:38
    they have all the assets of material
  • 00:18:41
    wealth of this uh
  • 00:18:42
    short earthly life that we're in in
  • 00:18:45
    reality some of them are very poor
  • 00:18:46
    because
  • 00:18:48
    they do not carry that love in their
  • 00:18:49
    heart for self and others
  • 00:18:51
    and what they came here to achieve
  • 00:18:53
    they're gonna leave it all here
  • 00:18:55
    and what makes you a wealthy person is
  • 00:18:58
    what good did you do for yourself and
  • 00:18:59
    others with the short time you were
  • 00:19:01
    given
  • 00:19:02
    and if your heart is full of love then
  • 00:19:04
    you will have access
  • 00:19:06
    to the reality after this
  • 00:19:09
    this is one of my favorite ones where
  • 00:19:11
    ibn arabi
  • 00:19:13
    tells us that he alone is the observer
  • 00:19:16
    he alone is the observed there is none
  • 00:19:19
    but he in the world of existence
  • 00:19:22
    same thing that we said the concept of
  • 00:19:24
    god and how we're all an extension of
  • 00:19:26
    that divinity that's basically playing
  • 00:19:28
    hide and seek with each other
  • 00:19:30
    trying to understand its own self and
  • 00:19:32
    how
  • 00:19:33
    it's it will it will be in a place where
  • 00:19:35
    man expects to find at least which will
  • 00:19:38
    be in your heart
  • 00:19:39
    and that's the reality is that god and
  • 00:19:42
    the grand architect
  • 00:19:44
    that is the only reality there's nothing
  • 00:19:46
    else that exists beyond that
  • 00:19:48
    all the heavens and the earth all the
  • 00:19:50
    trees humanity all living sentient
  • 00:19:52
    beings of mother earth including mother
  • 00:19:54
    earth herself
  • 00:19:56
    everything is an attribute of that
  • 00:19:58
    creator experiencing this reality
  • 00:20:01
    and how in some religious texts it also
  • 00:20:03
    tells you that first there was the word
  • 00:20:06
    and then the word became flesh so we
  • 00:20:08
    have that aspect of
  • 00:20:11
    these sufi teachings as well of knowing
  • 00:20:13
    thyself
  • 00:20:14
    and how god is in your heart and how we
  • 00:20:17
    waste our whole lives looking for
  • 00:20:19
    answers not knowing
  • 00:20:21
    that it was you the whole time you were
  • 00:20:23
    the one that held the key
  • 00:20:25
    to find the answers of your life you
  • 00:20:26
    just had to give up the resistance you
  • 00:20:28
    just have to surrender
  • 00:20:30
    which is one of the main cores of sufism
  • 00:20:33
    ultimately
  • 00:20:34
    islam is you have to submit to the
  • 00:20:36
    higher power
  • 00:20:37
    same goal of the mason submit to the
  • 00:20:40
    grand architect
  • 00:20:41
    the supreme grand master of the universe
  • 00:20:43
    and all
  • 00:20:44
    goodness and having faith in those
  • 00:20:46
    things and having faith in yourself will
  • 00:20:48
    open all the doors in your life
  • 00:20:50
    for then you realize what the true
  • 00:20:52
    reality is and what illusion is
  • 00:20:55
    and how this reality you're living in
  • 00:20:57
    where you like things upset you people
  • 00:20:59
    upset you
  • 00:21:01
    not knowing that it's basically
  • 00:21:03
    different phases
  • 00:21:04
    of those attributes of the creator
  • 00:21:06
    testing you so you can find your way
  • 00:21:08
    back home
  • 00:21:10
    and that is the ultimate reality where
  • 00:21:12
    some come to the realization of it
  • 00:21:14
    some do not some might have loads of
  • 00:21:17
    educations from the societal point of
  • 00:21:19
    view
  • 00:21:20
    they might get it some might not
  • 00:21:24
    so this is that aspect of
  • 00:21:27
    finding true light that you got to have
  • 00:21:30
    it in your heart to understand these
  • 00:21:32
    things
  • 00:21:33
    and know that we're all here in the
  • 00:21:35
    short life
  • 00:21:36
    trying to understand it's uh each other
  • 00:21:39
    our own selves and how we're all an
  • 00:21:42
    extension of that
  • 00:21:43
    creator trying to understand
  • 00:21:46
    this reality that we're in and that
  • 00:21:48
    ultimately
  • 00:21:50
    it is not the purpose of greed control
  • 00:21:53
    ego
  • 00:21:53
    but all but pure love and pure unity
  • 00:21:56
    that is the ultimate reality
  • 00:22:00
    this one goes the desires of this world
  • 00:22:03
    are like sea water
  • 00:22:04
    the more you drink of them the more you
  • 00:22:06
    thirst
  • 00:22:08
    and another aspect which touches on his
  • 00:22:11
    previous teachings that i have just
  • 00:22:12
    covered that
  • 00:22:14
    anything in this world is an illusion
  • 00:22:17
    you might have those that
  • 00:22:18
    go into these different entertainment
  • 00:22:20
    industries and they sell out for fame
  • 00:22:22
    and fortune
  • 00:22:23
    not knowing when you do that you lose
  • 00:22:26
    both
  • 00:22:26
    because when you die from this reality
  • 00:22:28
    you will lose all of the material wealth
  • 00:22:30
    which was for this realm
  • 00:22:32
    and then the next life you will be held
  • 00:22:34
    accountable for selling out
  • 00:22:36
    so that's really not a a bargain that's
  • 00:22:38
    worthwhile
  • 00:22:39
    where you have something that's
  • 00:22:41
    temporary and then in the next you lose
  • 00:22:43
    that access too
  • 00:22:44
    so that's what ibn arabi is saying is
  • 00:22:46
    that we have a society
  • 00:22:49
    that just wants more and more and more
  • 00:22:51
    and more than one instant gratification
  • 00:22:54
    not knowing that we're in this reality
  • 00:22:56
    to love one another
  • 00:22:57
    and not be stuck in this illusion and
  • 00:22:59
    move on to a higher realm if you
  • 00:23:01
    resonated with that
  • 00:23:03
    and you can drink as much as you want
  • 00:23:06
    there are people who make so much money
  • 00:23:08
    but for them it's still not enough they
  • 00:23:09
    want more
  • 00:23:10
    they want more they want more not
  • 00:23:13
    knowing
  • 00:23:14
    and i can ask many of them is that all
  • 00:23:16
    the money and assets you have
  • 00:23:18
    what guarantee can you give me that your
  • 00:23:19
    eyes are going to open up tomorrow
  • 00:23:21
    morning
  • 00:23:22
    and if you can't give me that then that
  • 00:23:23
    means you're still poor you still
  • 00:23:25
    haven't found the answers you're looking
  • 00:23:27
    for because you're you're
  • 00:23:28
    like a dog chasing its own tail it will
  • 00:23:31
    never be enough for you
  • 00:23:32
    and you will be stuck in a circle until
  • 00:23:35
    you realize what the ultimate truth is
  • 00:23:38
    that yeah you have the concept of
  • 00:23:40
    earthly money
  • 00:23:42
    you work hard to get what you have but
  • 00:23:44
    don't be in a concept where
  • 00:23:46
    you start selling out yourself your
  • 00:23:48
    family and others to get that temporary
  • 00:23:50
    fame and fortune
  • 00:23:52
    which ultimately any everything you do
  • 00:23:54
    in this life your thought action and
  • 00:23:56
    speech you will have a price to pay
  • 00:23:57
    in this life and the next so
  • 00:24:00
    know that what what those things stand
  • 00:24:03
    for
  • 00:24:04
    and that it will never be enough for you
  • 00:24:06
    if you want true peace
  • 00:24:08
    find that in your own heart you don't
  • 00:24:10
    need to impress the internet you don't
  • 00:24:12
    need to impress
  • 00:24:13
    anybody you just need to be at peace
  • 00:24:15
    with your own self
  • 00:24:16
    and then you will have the ultimate
  • 00:24:18
    wealth that you were looking for
  • 00:24:20
    and that is the reality ibn araby is
  • 00:24:22
    teaching us
  • 00:24:25
    this is what i touched on earlier as
  • 00:24:26
    well with this quote
  • 00:24:28
    when you know yourself your eyeness
  • 00:24:30
    vanishes
  • 00:24:31
    so the concept of knowing thyself and
  • 00:24:33
    knowing thy lord
  • 00:24:35
    and why almighty god is always
  • 00:24:36
    attributed as we
  • 00:24:38
    in the holy scriptures because that we
  • 00:24:41
    as you and i it's all of us that's all
  • 00:24:44
    the living sentient beings
  • 00:24:46
    it's the plants it's the trees it's all
  • 00:24:48
    of us
  • 00:24:49
    and we were in that concept of unity
  • 00:24:52
    what the masonic brotherhood teaches as
  • 00:24:54
    well
  • 00:24:55
    is that you be in unity with one another
  • 00:24:57
    being in love with one another
  • 00:25:00
    same thing a lot of these prophets and
  • 00:25:02
    saints and teachers and religions
  • 00:25:04
    everyone is teaching you to love each
  • 00:25:05
    other be in unity be one
  • 00:25:07
    united world community be at peace with
  • 00:25:10
    yourself be at peace with each other
  • 00:25:12
    you have the agents of chaos and what i
  • 00:25:15
    mean by the agents of chaos that those
  • 00:25:16
    who serve disunity and darkness
  • 00:25:19
    and they also exist in every race
  • 00:25:21
    religion country
  • 00:25:22
    and group you can imagine there's no bad
  • 00:25:25
    race or good race there's no bad
  • 00:25:27
    religion or good
  • 00:25:28
    religion it's a fight between light and
  • 00:25:30
    darkness
  • 00:25:31
    and you will find those elements
  • 00:25:32
    everywhere
  • 00:25:34
    you have to stand for the light and know
  • 00:25:36
    that anything that causes disunity is
  • 00:25:39
    ungodly
  • 00:25:40
    and that's what ibn arabi's teaching you
  • 00:25:42
    is that get rid of the i
  • 00:25:44
    it's all of us it's we just like how the
  • 00:25:47
    religious texts
  • 00:25:48
    when almighty god speaks it's always we
  • 00:25:52
    and we're all an extension of each other
  • 00:25:55
    and any person
  • 00:25:56
    you meet in your life like i have
  • 00:25:57
    addressed as a reflection of your past
  • 00:26:00
    present and future
  • 00:26:01
    we are mirrors of each other you grow up
  • 00:26:04
    your parents you come through your
  • 00:26:06
    parents with the will of god
  • 00:26:08
    you grow up you go through society you
  • 00:26:11
    go through the motions you go through
  • 00:26:13
    everything
  • 00:26:14
    ultimately you settle down you have a
  • 00:26:16
    wife or you have a husband
  • 00:26:18
    you have children and life goes on
  • 00:26:22
    then that cycle gets repeated then your
  • 00:26:25
    mirror goes into your children
  • 00:26:27
    they grow up then the same cycle happens
  • 00:26:30
    so ultimately it's just one mirror
  • 00:26:32
    reflecting to the other reflecting to
  • 00:26:33
    the other reflecting to the other
  • 00:26:35
    until we all find our way back home and
  • 00:26:38
    we must be
  • 00:26:39
    very of any agenda that tells us who to
  • 00:26:42
    hate who to fear
  • 00:26:43
    who to watch out for because those
  • 00:26:45
    people do not serve our highest good
  • 00:26:48
    and we need to eliminate that eyeness
  • 00:26:50
    and become we again
  • 00:26:53
    this one goes god sleeps in the rock
  • 00:26:57
    dreams and the plants stars in the
  • 00:26:59
    animal
  • 00:27:00
    and awakens in man and how
  • 00:27:03
    when someone passes away we say to god
  • 00:27:06
    we belong unto him we shall return
  • 00:27:09
    because that is the only reality how you
  • 00:27:11
    have a mineral
  • 00:27:12
    that goes to a plant plant goes to an
  • 00:27:15
    animal
  • 00:27:15
    animal goes to man man goes to angel and
  • 00:27:18
    angel goes
  • 00:27:19
    ultimately back to god that source of
  • 00:27:22
    pure love
  • 00:27:23
    and pure essence of energy which does
  • 00:27:26
    not have any form
  • 00:27:27
    does not have any gender and that is the
  • 00:27:29
    reality that the sufi is trying to get
  • 00:27:31
    back to in his aspect of connecting to
  • 00:27:34
    the divine
  • 00:27:35
    and in his aspect of self-improvement
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    which is the goal of the mason as well
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    to get close to the grand architect put
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    his faith in god to become better know
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    better think better do better
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    and that is the ultimate reality that
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    aspect of the creator
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    and just like how rumi said i always
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    come back in some way i will always
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    exist as some kind of a universal energy
  • 00:27:59
    we believe that this life is it but your
  • 00:28:02
    energy will continue to exist
  • 00:28:05
    even it's shown in the matrix movie at
  • 00:28:07
    the end of the third matrix movie where
  • 00:28:09
    neo
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    after his sacrifice supposedly dies but
  • 00:28:12
    you see that burst of
  • 00:28:14
    energy when the machines carry him away
  • 00:28:17
    and as you see in the matrix 4 that
  • 00:28:19
    there is some kind of a return
  • 00:28:21
    of that energy manifesting again so no
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    one truly dies
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    the immortality of the soul that all the
  • 00:28:27
    esoteric spiritual paths are teaching us
  • 00:28:30
    sufism masonry other interpretations
  • 00:28:33
    that are out there
  • 00:28:35
    we will always exist in some way shape
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    or form
  • 00:28:39
    and that is the ultimate reality and our
  • 00:28:41
    love
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    that you sometimes people feel neglected
  • 00:28:46
    they feel hopeless not knowing that they
  • 00:28:49
    still serve a greater purpose than they
  • 00:28:51
    realize
  • 00:28:51
    maybe it hasn't been revealed to them
  • 00:28:53
    maybe they don't know
  • 00:28:55
    but everything has a right time and
  • 00:28:56
    right place for it
  • 00:28:58
    and we must never lose our faith knowing
  • 00:29:00
    our ultimate purpose in the grand scheme
  • 00:29:02
    of things
  • 00:29:04
    the last one there was a time when i
  • 00:29:07
    blamed my companion if his religion did
  • 00:29:09
    not resemble mine
  • 00:29:11
    now however however my heart accepts
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    every form
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    love alone is my religion now the
  • 00:29:17
    masonic aspect and the beauty that i saw
  • 00:29:19
    here is that
  • 00:29:20
    before most people join that aspect of
  • 00:29:23
    unity whether in sufism freemasonry or
  • 00:29:26
    any esoteric path that they're following
  • 00:29:28
    majority of the time their gatherings
  • 00:29:31
    and friendships will be surrounded by
  • 00:29:33
    people who often reflect
  • 00:29:34
    their own race and religion and
  • 00:29:38
    this is what have been araby's teaching
  • 00:29:41
    us
  • 00:29:42
    is that anywhere you find love that's
  • 00:29:44
    where you find unity
  • 00:29:46
    where i is a muslim man can stand side
  • 00:29:49
    by side
  • 00:29:50
    behind beside a hindu christian jewish
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    man
  • 00:29:54
    anyone and i can call them my brother
  • 00:29:56
    and they can do the same for me
  • 00:29:58
    and if they don't they don't resemble my
  • 00:30:01
    religion then
  • 00:30:02
    ultimately it's all the same truth
  • 00:30:04
    anyway
  • 00:30:05
    and there's a sufi sheikh that i know
  • 00:30:08
    that tells me that whoever he meets and
  • 00:30:10
    they ask him what his religion is
  • 00:30:12
    he would always tell them the answer
  • 00:30:14
    that would make them feel better as a
  • 00:30:16
    mere reflection
  • 00:30:17
    so if he meets a hindu and the hindu
  • 00:30:19
    asks him what faith are you he would say
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    i'm a hindu
  • 00:30:22
    if he meets a christian who asks him who
  • 00:30:24
    are you and he would say i'm a christian
  • 00:30:26
    if he would meet a muslim or a jew what
  • 00:30:30
    faith you resemble he would give him
  • 00:30:31
    that same answer that i am you you are
  • 00:30:33
    me
  • 00:30:34
    for we are an extension of that creator
  • 00:30:36
    experiencing this reality together
  • 00:30:38
    and the concept of unity when one
  • 00:30:40
    becomes an initiate
  • 00:30:42
    or comes to that awareness of knowing
  • 00:30:44
    thyself
  • 00:30:45
    and that's that's what it is you have to
  • 00:30:49
    have that company
  • 00:30:50
    and that love and understanding that
  • 00:30:51
    love is the only reality
  • 00:30:54
    and uh yeah we're all here to walk each
  • 00:30:56
    other home
  • 00:30:57
    that is the ultimate truth
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    thank you for watching i hope you were
  • 00:31:03
    able to gain something
  • 00:31:04
    from the teachings of ibn arabi and my
  • 00:31:07
    own interpretation
  • 00:31:09
    of his teachings and what he was trying
  • 00:31:10
    to teach us as the human family
  • 00:31:13
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