Why Must You Show Mercy to Those Who Deny Allah? | Ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi taught that you must show mercy even to those who oppose the truth — and the reason will unsettle everything you believed about who deserves your kindness. This is not softness, and it is not surrender. It is a door, and behind it stands the widest thing in all of existence. Most of us treat mercy as something a person earns, something we are entitled to withhold from the one who is wrong. But Ibn Arabi points to a deeper reality: the very states of belief and denial were apportioned by Allah Himself. Your standing in the truth was given to you, not manufactured by you — which means it was never yours to feel superior about. In this reflection we walk slowly through the master's teaching on rahma, the mercy that is not one quality among many but the very substance out of which the world is breathed into being. We look at why withholding mercy is like building a dam against the one river that carries you, why even a denier's mercy is honored before Allah, and how your harshness — even when your facts are correct — can drive a soul away from the door it was standing at. You will discover: Why Ibn Arabi says the mercy you withhold is really withheld from yourself The teaching of nafas al-Rahman — how all of creation is the "Breath of the Merciful" How the nafs disguises contempt as love of the truth, and how to catch it in the act Why mercy always prevails over wrath, and what that means for how you treat those in ghaflah Two contemplative practices — a murakaba of mercy and a single hidden act to repeat each day What marifa reveals about why your guidance was a gift, never a merit to boast of By the end, you will see why the highest station a soul can occupy is to hold the truth firmly in one hand and total mercy in the other — and never let the first harden the second. In His remembrance, the hardest heart begins to thaw. Watch to the end, for the final image the master leaves us with changes how you will look at every person you were tempted to condemn. Write in the comments this one line, so we may remember it together: "His mercy encompasses all things." If this path speaks to your heart, subscribe and walk it with us — on this road you do not travel alone. 🎵 If these words moved your heart, let the music carry you deeper. Our Sufi Awakening Music channel offers hours of peace, reflection, and remembrance:    / @sufiawakeningmusic   📖 And if you love the stories of the masters, walk with us through the tales of the Sufi path:    / @sufiawakeningtales   ✉️ For collaborations, questions, or to share what this path has awakened in you: sufiawakeninginfo@gmail.com #IbnArabi #Sufism #Mercy #Rahma #Tasawwuf #IslamicMysticism #SufiWisdom #NafasAlRahman #MercyOverWrath #Dhikr #SufiAwakening Written & produced by Sufi Awakening. © 2026 Sufi Awakening. All rights reserved.