a reflection on the commonalities between molavi and ibn-e arabi

molana' s school of mystical thinking is deemed to be thoroughly independent from that of ibn-e arabi. to simply demonstrate that molana visited ibn-e arabi in damascus ( at the time when molana was young and the latter quite old), and that molana associated with and developed friendship with sadr-e ghunavi ( the greatest advocate of ibn-e arabi), and that they shared common viewpoints are proofs that molana was deeply under the influence of ibn-e arabi.