All human beings must seek answer to the following question,
and they should do this in their best interest:
How do I find God?
Having answered it they must then set out to verify the truth of their answer by finding God in fact, not in theory.
Finding (
wujūd) also has the meaning of existence or being.
Important: What is at stake here is not the mental or philosophical concept of Being,
but experiencing God's Being as 'tasting' (
dhauq).
Because of the fact that in this existence there is nothing but the necessary Existent, which is God, from which all other so-called existences or 'beings' are derived or 'on loan', there has to be in this life a constant lifting of those veils which separate us from God,
therefore the above question of "how do I find God?" has to be reformulated into:
How can I remove the veils, that prevent me from seeing God?
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From Chittick's translation and comment on parts of the
Futuhat al-Makkiyya by Ibn ĘżArabi:
"The Sufi Path Of Knowledge -
Ibn ĘżArabi's Metaphysics of Imagination"
