What the Seeker Needs?

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

"What the seeker needs", is from the English translation of Kitab Kunh ma la budda lil- murid minhu (كنه ما لابد للمريد منه). This brief but important work by Shaykh al Akbar, Ibn ʿArabī (ابن عربي‎),  was reportedly written in Mosul in 1204 in answer to the question of what the seeker "should believe in and what he should do in the beginning, before anything else".

Translations of this work have been printed on several occasions in English for example by A. Jeffrey, and more recently by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak.

الحمد لله رب العالمين، وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين

  

All praise and thanks are due to Allah Most High, and may His benedictions and salutations be upon His messenger, and the progeny and companions of His messenger.

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سألت أيها المريد عن "كنه ما لا بد للمريد منه"، فأجبتك في هذه الأوراق، والله الموفق لا رب غيره

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O disciple, you sought to know on what is required of a seeker, and I have responded in these few pages, by the leave of Allah, and there is no Lord but Him.


Translations of this work have been printed on several occasions in English for example by A. Jeffrey, and more recently by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak.