Sufism in Morocco…

The Fez Festival of Sufi Culture concluded this week-end in Morocco. This year, the week-long event in Fez was dedicated to Ibn Arabi–whose beautiful tomb I visited in Syria for a solo night-time retreat…

What ails my people that they turn away from what I have to say?
Do they suffer from some inability to grasp what I am uttering?
How is it that my people are blind to what is manifest of my
Beloved in my own being?
It is not that I am mad with love for any of His creatures, since I
am in love only with my own essential divine being; so understand!

Since taking upon myself the divine, I have returned (to worldly
consciousness) as a theatre of divine Self-manifestation.
Thus have I become, so hold fast to me!
For at your level of existence, I am the ‘rope of God,’ so stay close
to the ‘door’…

— Ibn Arabi