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The Meccan Revelations, Volume II

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I don't own this book in English and I cannot tell the quality of the translation. But, let me tell the following as an answer to the "warning" review below.

1) With respect to the "knowledge" of divine truth, It IS a fact that Ali was superior to all people under Mohammad (SAV), except Mohammad (SAV). The Prophet explicitly stated this.

2) Accepting the above fact doesn't make one a defendent of shiism. Shiism is far more complicated to explain and a view in which the role of Ali was exaggerated.

3) All the four caliphs had different qualities which should be respected. And, again accepting the first fact does not necessarily conclude that one was superior to the other in general.

4) Ibn Arabi himself explicitly suggested the ordinary people like us to respect all the contemporaries of the Prophet and the caliphs and not to make extravagant conclusions upon their different qualities and conflicts.

5) Ibn Arabi was not a defendent of shiism.

He was way ahead of ordinary people to be understood correctly. So, make a humble reading and stay away from your own conclusions and dreams and ignore the "warning" review below. He doesn't have knowledge (ilm).