For those who do not know Ibn Arabi, Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi (محمد ابن عربي), known by its very name of Ibn' Arabi (1165, Murcia in the country of al- Andalus - 1240, Damascus). Also known as "Sheikh al-Akbar" ("greatest master" in Arabic), it is a mystic, author of 846 books. His works have influenced Dante and St. John of the Cross. In his poems he discusses love, passion, beauty and lack. To learn more, Wikipedia has a very good article on Ibn Arabi .
Here are the words that I like most about Ibn Arabi:
miracle! A young veiled gazelle
Showing his purple finger and waving his eyelids!
His field is between ribs and guts,
O marvel, a garden among the flames!
My heart becomes capable of any image:
There is meadow for gazelles, a convent for monks,
temple for idols, for Mecca pilgrims,
Tablets of the Torah and the Koran book.
I am the religion of love, wherever its head mounts,
Love is my religion and my faith.
I remember when I posted the verses on a French forum, it y'en was one who told me "You veiled women, and now you steal gazelle hide," and I 'm was laughing too.
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