Shaykh Muhammad: There are many among the brothers who do not distinguish between Ibn Arabi and Ibn al-Arabi.
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The questioner : Shaykh Muhammad! There are many among the brothers who do not distinguish between Ibn Arabi and Ibn al-Arabi?
The Shaykh : In any case, it is obligatory to distinguish between them, because Ibn Arabi is known for his ecstatic utterances that reach the level of disbelief, may Allah protect us from that.
And Ibn al-Arabi is a scholar of the Maliki school, a good man, and from the people of the Sunnah as far as we know. So the difference between the two men is like the difference between the East and the West, or between the sky and the earth.
The Shaykh : In any case, it is obligatory to distinguish between them, because Ibn Arabi is known for his ecstatic utterances that reach the level of disbelief, may Allah protect us from that.
And Ibn al-Arabi is a scholar of the Maliki school, a good man, and from the people of the Sunnah as far as we know. So the difference between the two men is like the difference between the East and the West, or between the sky and the earth.