How The Heart Dies.. An Advice From Ibn Arabi.

[Abu Hafsat]

As-Salaam alaikum, 

"Wherever you turn, there is the face of God" (2:115) 

Such knowledge comes by way of Zikr, which is al-hudur ma'al-mazkur.. "presence of the One Remembered". We should see the world for what it is - - a reminder of God, a mention of God, a remembrance of God. And the place where God becomes truly present and man becomes truly blessed, is the heart. 

Says Sheikh al-Akbar, or the Greatest Master, Sheikh Muhiyiddin Ibn Arabi:-

 "The greatest sin is what brings about the death of the heart. It dies only by not knowing God. This is what is named " ignoramce". 

For the heart is the house that God has chosen for Himself in this human configuration. But such a person has misappropriated the house, coming between it and its Owner ". 

(Futuhat Makkiyyah, 179:6), Cairo, 1911.