Pursuit of knowledge
"God commanded his prophet to say, "My Lord, increase me in knowledge". (20:114) The thirst of him who seeks increase is never quenched. God did not command him to seek for a determined time or within limited bounds. On contrary, the command was absolute. Hence he seeks increase and bestowal in this world and the next...
God never ceases creating within us ad infinitum, so the knowledges extend ad inifinitum...
The words of God are never exhausted; these words are the entities of His existent things. Hence the thirst of the seeker of knowledge never ceases. He never experiences "quenching", because his preparedness (isti'dad) seeks to gain a knowledge. Once this knowledge has been gained, it gives to him the preparedness for a new knowledge, whether engendered or divine. What he gains lets him know that there is something demanded by the new preparedness — which has been occasioned by the knowledge acquired through the first preparedness —, so he becomes thirsty to gain this new knowledge. Hence the seeker of knowledge is like him who drinks the water of the sea. The more he drinks, the thirstier he becomes.
Bringing to be (al-takwin) is never cut off, so objects of knowledge are never cut off,
so knowledges are never cut off.
How can there be quenching?
No one believes in quenching except him who was ignorant of what is created within himself constantly and continuously.
And he who has no knowledge of himself has no knowledge of his Lord.
He who has no knowledge imagines that he knows God, but that is not correct, since a thing cannot be known except through positive attributes of its own self, but our knowledge of this is impossible, so our knowledge of God is impossible. So glory be to him who is known only by the fact that he is not known! The no war of God does not transgress his own level. He knows that he knows that he is one of those who do not know."
Excerpts are from Ibn Arabi, Futuhat al Makkiyya, II, 552.12, as translated by William Chittick in The Sufi Path of Knowledge, State University of New York Press, 1989, pages 153 – 154