The Duality of Time Theory

At the end of the first book, in Arabic: “The Sufi Interpretation of Joseph Story”, or: “The Path of the Heart”, that was published in 1999, I promised that I will write another book to explain the cosmological principle behind Einstein’s theory of relativity, and why the speed of light is constant in all frames! At that time, in fact, I had not the slightest idea how am I really going to do that, but it became utterly evident to me that Ibn al-Arabi’s comprehensive view of the cosmos is far deeper and much more accurate than all other scientific theories, to the extent that they can only be correct if they agree with him.

Although the subject of that book was not directly related to cosmology altogether, I put an illustration on the front cover to demonstrate the Sufi concept of abolishment in divine Presence, but it turned out that this same depiction can beautifully summarize the concept of re-creation or the perpetual formation of space and matter, which is the main concept in the Single Monad Model that lead to the Duality of Time Theory. This illustration is reproduced in Figure I.1.

Figure 1.1: An illustration of the Sufi concept of abolishment, originally depicted in “The Sufi Interpretation of Joseph Story”, but this can at the same time beautifully demonstrates the concept of metaphysical creation of space and matter in the inner levels of time. The abstract point denotes the Single Monad which is continuously inflating into matter and space and deflating again into the metaphysical reality of oneness.

At the time when I was reading these concepts in Ibn al-Arabi’s books, I had no clear idea how they are actually related to cosmology, because he normally never care too much to explain the reasons, mostly only describing his views, or visions, in remotely cryptic and dispersed poetic manners that require extensive study and analysis to put them together in reasonably comprehensible logic.