Immortal Echoes, Mortal Words

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about how manifestation works.

• Epis...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about how manifestation works.

Guiding q...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about how manifestation works.

Episode 6...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about how manifestation works. Guiding ...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Guiding Questions: 1. "God is First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward." How might this reshape our understanding of divine presence in the world and within ourselves? 2. How do Ibn Arabi’s views challenge or complement the idea that God can be approached intellectually versus spiritually or experientially? 3. What rol...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

The following guiding questions will help you navigate the episode:

1. Ibn Arabi says, "The Real has permeated existence, and is present in every being to the degree that the reality of that being requires." What implications does this have in our social, religious, (political?!), and environmental life?
2. If the human being is...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about how manifestation works.

Guiding q...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about ho...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

The following guiding questions will help you navigate the episode:

1. Ibn Arabi says, "The Real 'gave existence' to coming into beings through His Essence.' What implications does this claim convey?
2. What does Ibn Arabi's use of the word zuhur, "emergence/emanation/appearance," have over a "creation"?
3. What Neoplatonic insight...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Unveiling one of the most profound and subtle teachings in Sufi Metaphysics—this episode of Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam dives into Ibn ʿArabī’s conception of “universal realities” (umūr kulliyya)—shortly translated as “universals.” This metaphysical topic bridges the divine Essence (Dhāt) and cosmos, reveal...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Study Guide for Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam: Before engaging with Ibn ʿArabī’s text, understanding his thought is beneficial: - His Intellectual Landscape: Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas draw from the Qur’an, Ḥadīth, Sufi metaphysics, Neoplatonism, and Islamic theology. Familiarity with these traditions helps. - The Structure of Fuṣūṣ al...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Ep.1. Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam, Preface (Khuṭba) Ep.2. Ibn Arabi’s "Fixed Entities" (aʿyan al-thabita) Ep.3. Ibn Arabi’s "Unity of Existence" (Wahdat al-Wujud) 4. Ch1.E3. Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, Faṣṣ One: Wisdom of Adam

• • My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cos...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Ep.1. Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam, Preface (Khuṭba) Ep.2. Ibn Arabi’s "Fixed Entities" (aʿyan al-thabita) Ep.3. Ibn Arabi’s "Unity of Existence" (Wahdat al-Wujud)

• • My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and pr...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani & Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi
• The poem and translation: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/rumi-ghazal-1824

In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore Rumi’s vision of love, surrender, and spiritual transformation through Ghazal 1824 from the Divan-i Shams Tabrizi. For Rumi, the Beloved is infinite; theref...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani & Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore the intense mystical love Rumi presents in ghazal 1844 of the Divan. This poem is a powerful guide for those seeking to understand love, which demands surrender of the self before the Beloved and the courage to face the battlefield ...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani & Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

The poem and its translation: [https://immortal-echoes-mortal-words-shop.fourthwall.com/pages/fayz-ghazal-931] In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore Fayḍ Kāshānī’s electrifying ghazal 931, a masterpiece that reveals the burning intensity of divine love and the philosoph...

• Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Co-host: Dr. Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
• Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Persian poetry and mysticism reach a profound philosophical depth in Fayḍ Kāshānī’s Mishwāq, where he interprets symbols such as face and tress, wine and cupbearer, mole and eye, clarifying the metaphysics of Divine Beauty, Majesty, and multiplicity and uni...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

Love, in Persian mystical poetry, is never merely an emotion—it is a radical path of transformation. In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we recite and interpret Fayḍ Kāshānī’s Ghazal 288 from his Diwan, where he proclaims: “Not for a moment am I heedless—love demands this.” Through Farsi recitation and Engli...

• Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

In this episode of Ibn Arabi Podcast, I continue examining his conception of imagination (khayāl) and the in-between (barzakh). Drawing from Ibn ʿArabī’s metaphysical vision, as interpreted in Chapter Seven (“The In-Between”) of William Chittick’s book Ibn ʿArabī Heir to Prophets, I explain how divine Essence self-discloses thr...