Unity and Becoming: A Dialogical Encounter Between Ibn ʿArabī and Hegel
Setting: A tranquil garden under a celestial dome. A fountain murmurs the rhythm of becoming. Birds sing in the dialectic of opposites. Ibn ʿArabī appears robed in luminous white, Hegel in somber 19th-century black. They sit on opposite sides of a stone table inscribed with the words ḥaqq (truth) and Vernunft (reason). Ibn ʿArabī: Welcome, seeker of Spirit. You have traveled far through the corridors of thought to arrive here. Hegel: And you, Master of Andalusia, have moved through the inner worlds to meet me on the path of the Absolute. Let us speak, then, of the Real. Ibn ʿArabī: The Real ( al-Ḥaqq ) is One. All things are but its manifestations. There is no being but Being—it unfolds Itself in countless forms, each a face of the same Essence. Hegel: And yet, the Absolute does not remain still. It becomes. It negates itself in order to return to itself at a higher level. Being passes into Nothing, and together they generate Becoming. Through contradiction,...
