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Ibn 'Arabi describes a meeting with Khidr
A group of wandering pilgrims who seclude themselves arrived at the mosque, intending to perform the prayer.
Among them was the one who had talked to me on the sea [in Tunis], who I had been told was Khidr. Among them also was a man of great worth, who was greater than him in rank. I had met him before and made friends with him. I rose and greeted him; he greeted me and was pleased to see me. Then he went forward to perform the prayer.
At the end of the prayer I stood talking with him at the door to the mosque, when the man I said was Khidr took a prayer-rug from the mihrab of the mosque, stretched it out seven cubits [10 feet] above the ground, and got onto it to do his supererogatory prayers.
I asked my friend: "Have you seen this man and what he is doing?" He told me to go and ask him about it.
So I left my friend and went over to see him. When Khidr had finished his prayers, I greeted him.
He told me: "I only did what you saw for the sake of that denier over there", pointing to my travelling-companion who had denied miracles and who was sitting, watching him, "so that he might know that God does whatsoever He wishes with whomsoever He wishes."
I turned back to the denier and asked him what he had to say.
He replied: "What is there to say after seeing that?"
Futuhat al-Makkiyya
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