The takfir of Ibn Arabi

Hafidh Ibn Hajr said, “I asked my Shaykh Siraaj ud deen al-Balqayaanee about Ibn Arabi and he replied quickly he is kafir (disbeliever)” (Lisaan ul-Mizaan, 4/319; 5/213; Tambiyyatul-Ghabee Ilaa Takfir Ibn Arabi, 159)

Hafidh Ibn Daqiq al-Eed asked Abu Muhammad Izzuddeen Abdul Azeez bin Abdus Salaam as-Silmi ad-Damashqee about Ibn Arabi and he replied, “Dirty, liar and far from the truth, he opined time was old and he did not consider other peoples private parts to be haraam.” (al-Wafaa Bal-Wafyaat, 4/125; Tambiyyatul-Ghabee, 138-139; Mizaan ul-Ei’tidaal, 3/659; Lisaan ul-Mizaan, 5/311-312; 6/398)

Abu Hayyaan Muhammad bin Yoosuf Andaloosee (745H) said, “From the heretics who affirm unification and unity of existence are…… Ibn Arabi”
(Tafsir Bahr al-Muhit, 3/464-465)

Hafidh Ibn Kathir said, “and the book which is named Fusoos al-Hikam contains many things which indicate clear kufr (disbelief).” (Bidaayah Wan-Nihaayah, 13/167)

Imam Ibn Taymiyyah wrote, “No one has elucidated the meaning of al-Heerah from amongst the people of knowledge and Eemaan, however a group from amongst the heretics like the author of Fusoos al-Hikam Ibn Arabi and others like him who are heretics.” (Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 11/385)

Muhaddith Baqaa’ee wrote our teacher Hafidh Ibn Hajr and another man called Ibn al-Ameen had a mubaahilah concerning Ibn Arabi. The man said, “If Ibn Arabi is upon misguidance then curse me.” Hafidh Ibn Hajr said, “Oh Allah if Ibn Arabi is upon guidance then curse me.” After a few months the man became blind and died during the night. (Tambiyyatul-Ghabee, 136-137)

Qadhee Taqiuddeen Ali bin Abdul Kaafee as-Subki said in Sharh Minhaaj in the Chapter of al-Wasayyah, “Whoever is from amongst the later sufi’s like Ibn Arabi and others then they are ignorant and misguided and they outside the way of Islam.” (Tambiyyatul-Ghabee, 143)

Shamsuddeen Muhammad al-Eaizree wrote about Fusoos al-Hikam in his book al-Fatawaa al-Muntashirah, “The scholars says whatever is in it, then all of it is disbelief and everything in it is based on the belief of unification.” (Tambiyyatul-Ghabee, 152)

Mulla Ali Qaari said, “So if you are a true Muslim and believer, then do not have doubt in the disbelief of Ibn Arabi and his group and do not hold back in their misguidance and stupid misguided group. If it is asked is it permissible to give them salam first? Then I say no and nor should you reply to their Salam, rather do not even say Alaykum as their evil is worse than the Jews and Christians, and the ruling concerning them is that of the heretical disbelievers. It is obligatory to burn the books they have authored and everyone should mention their evil and hypocrisy as the silence of the scholars and the differing of some of the narrators became the reason for this fitnah.” (Radd Alal Qaa’ileen Bi-Wahdatul-Wajood, 155-156)


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