Province of Household Members in the Eyes of Ibn Arabi

Although Ibn Arbi is known to be a Sunni mystic, his viewpoints on province, the impeccable, and the saint's Household members are so much close to those of Shiites that he is assumed to be a Shiite. This paper tries to explain his perspectives on the saint's household members.The greatest Sheikh knows province to be the core of prophecy and prophetic mission, and believes that province, proximity to God, is the basis for luminosity, grace, and intermediation between God and creatures, and that every prophet and messenger is primarily a province. Such a province is never ending with the prophecy and prophetic mission of the last prophet on the earth. Rather, continuing up to the saint's household members leads to Imam Mahdi (pbuh). This paper evidentially discusses the saint's position of household members, status, and chastity in the eyes of Ibn Arabi.