IBN ARABI's Shocking Response to this Question

How Can I Find God? IBN ARABI's Shocking Response to this Question

How can one truly find God—not in theory, but in lived reality?

In Ibn al-‘Arabi’s teachings, we dive into one of the most essential spiritual questions ever asked: How can I find God? According to Ibn al-‘Arabi, every human being must confront this question, not merely intellectually, but through direct verification and lived experience.

This video explains how Ibn al-‘Arabi distinguishes between knowing God conceptually and finding God through unveiling (kashf) and direct witnessing (wujūd). Those who succeed in this path are called the People of Unveiling and Finding (ahl al-kashf wa’l-wujūd)—individuals who have passed beyond the veils that obscure divine presence and now stand consciously in the Presence of God.

We explore how wujūd, often translated as “existence” or “being,” also means finding—a lived encounter with Divine Reality. From this perspective, Wahdat al-Wujūd (Unity of Being) is not merely a philosophical doctrine, but the Unity of Finding: the tasting, perceiving, and being of what truly is. Ibn al-‘Arabi was not concerned with abstract ontology; his concern was the direct experience of God’s Being, renewed at every moment.

The video also unpacks Ibn al-‘Arabi’s central idea of bewilderment (ḥayra)—not confusion or loss, but the sacred astonishment of knowing and not-knowing God simultaneously. As the great saying of Abu Bakr reminds us: “Incapacity to attain comprehension is itself comprehension.” True knowledge of God lies beyond simple affirmation or negation, in the paradox Ibn al-‘Arabi expresses as “He / not He.”

You will learn how the Friends of God (awliyāʾ) and the Gnostics (‘ārifūn) perceive divine presence everywhere, living the Qur’anic truth: “Wherever you turn, there is the Face of God.” Especially emphasized are the Verifiers (al-muḥaqqiqūn)—those who have confirmed this vision on every level of existence, intelligence, and speech, without falling into confusion or denial of the world.

Ultimately, this video reveals that finding God means removing the veils—not only from perception, but from being itself. It is an ontological transformation, not merely an intellectual one. To find God is to realize that He is both the veil and the unveiling, the seeker and the sought, the knower and the known.

This content is for seekers of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s wisdom, Sufi metaphysics, Islamic mysticism, Wahdat al-Wujūd, spiritual unveiling, and self-knowledge leading to God-knowledge.

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