is that of the Breath of the All-Merciful [nafas al- rahmån]...
in which he elucidates [toelicht] Quranic references to the speech of God.
The Quran tells us in several verses...
that God brings things into existence simply by saying 'Be!' to them, and that God’s words are in effect infinite – if all the oceans were ink, and all trees were pens, God’s words would not run out [Q.18:109, 31:27].
Ibn Arabi explains God’s words on the analogy of our own words, which are also inexhaustible, at least potentially. We bring the words out from our awareness, just as God brings His words out from His infinite knowledge. We articulate words in our breath, just as God articulates words in His All- Merciful Breath.
Our words disappear as quickly as we utter them, just as God’s words are evanescent. 'Everything perishes but His face', says the Quran, and Ibn Arabi insists that this rule applies to every moment of every existent thing.
It follows that each moment of existence, each moment of each thing, is a new creation, a new articulation of the thing’s existence. Failing this new articulation, God’s words – the universe – would simply disappear, for nothing can exist without constant divine support.
~bron~
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