The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) MP Ali Laban has described the great Sufi Ibn Arabi as an "extremist Sufi". Indeed, Laban does not know that Ibn Arabi was an Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Arabi al-Hatimi al-Taa'i. Ibn Arabi was born in Medinat Mursiya (present day Murcia) in Al-Andalus on 17 Ramadan 560 AH/July 28, 1165 CE, and his family moved to Sevilla when he was eight years old. In 1200 CE, at the age of thirty-five, he left Iberia for good, intending to make the hajj to Mecca. He lived near Mecca for three years, where he began writing his Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Illuminations). In 1204, he left Mecca for Anatolia with Majd-al-Din Es'haq (Isaac), whose son Sadr-al-Din Qunawi (1210-1274) would be his most influential disciple. In 1223, he settled in Damascus, where he lived the last seventeen years of his life. He died at the age of 76 on 22 Rabi' II 638 AH/November 10, 1240CE, and his tomb in Damascus is still an important place of pilgrimage. I ask Laban to read Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya, Ibn Arabi's largest work discussing a wide range of topics from mystical philosophy to Sufi practices and records of his dreams/visions. Laban would never attack Ibn Arabi or describe him as an extremist if he understood this book and especially its introduction or if he read about Ibn Arabi's life in Shams Al-Ghoroub (the sunset) book by Dr Mohamed Hajj Youssef. The MB members declared many alive people as infidel and they now attack a dead man and accuse him of being extremist. In fact, the MB members are those who are extremists, but they do not feel.
