When God called to Moses from the burning bush, He commanded him: «Remove your two sandals» [20:12]. The twelfth-century Sufi scholar Ibn Qasī (d. 546 AH / 1151 CE) read this Quranic episode as an allegory of spiritual realization and composed Khalʿ al-Naʿlayn ("The Removal of the Two Sandals") — a treatise on the soul's preparation for divine encounter. A century later, Muḥyiddīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638 AH / 1240 CE), the greatest metaphysician of the Islamic tradition, wrote this commentary (sharḥ) on Ibn Qasī's text, unfolding its implications through his own doctrine of the oneness of being, theophanic self-disclosure, and the immutable entities. The work alternates between Ibn Qasī's original passages [Text] and Ibn al-ʿArabī's commentary [Commentary].
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An English rendering of Ibn al-ʿArabī's Sharḥ Khalʿ al-Naʿlayn, translated directly from the Arabic critical text in the edition by Ercan Alkan (Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı, 2021). Produced with Claude Opus 4.6 via vision-based translation from page images of the Arabic odd pages (225–709). The Turkish scholarly translation on the facing even pages served as a review reference for verifying section structure, technical terminology, and Quranic citation accuracy. A cross-chapter consistency review was also performed with Gemini 3.1.
Technical Akbarian vocabulary follows Chittick's conventions (The Sufi Path of Knowledge). Quranic quotations marked «thus» with [surah:ayat] references.