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 through imaginal existence. Ibn ʿArabī challenges assumptions about reality, perception, and knowledge by noting that everything other than God exists in an intermediate state between being and nonbeing; everything is imagination. This episode focuses on how the soul itself is imaginal, how the cosmos unfolds as an image mirroring divine self-disclosure, and why true understanding requires balancing reason and imagination together.

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