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This video focuses on the Sufi doctrine called "Wahdat al-Wujud" (sometimes The Oneness of Being), strongly associated with Ibn 'Arabi (d.
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Wahdat al-wujud, which means "oneness of being" or "unity of existence," is a controversial expression closely associated with the name of Ibn al-˓Arabi (d.
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The oneness of being (wahdat al-wujud) accroding to Ibn Arabi. An article by Bakri Aladdin on the website of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society.
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The unity of Being. Doctrine formulated by the school of Ibn al-Arabi, which postulates that God and His creation are one, since all that is created ...
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Learn about this topic in these articles: role in Chishtīyah practice. In Chishtīyah …of the unity of being (waḥdat al-wujūd), oneness with God; thus, ...
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===Wahdat Al-Wujud | Encyclopedia.com
WAHDAT AL-WUJUD
Wahdat al-wujud, which means "oneness of being" or "unity of existence," is a controversial expression closely associated with the name of Ibn al-˓Arabi (d. 1240), even though he did not employ it in his writings. It seems to have been ascribed to him for the first time in the polemics of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328). Through modern times, critics, defenders, and Western scholars have offered widely different interpretations of its meaning; in "Rûmî and Wahdat al-wujûd" (1994), William Chittick has analyzed seven of these.
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Taken individually, the two words are among the most discussed in Sufism, philosophy, and kalam (theology).
Wahda or "oneness" is asserted in tawhid, the first principle of Islamic faith.
Wujud—being or existence—is taken by many authors as the preferred designation for God's very reality.
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All Muslims agree that God's very reality is one. Controversy arises because the word wujud is also employed for the "existence" of things and the world.
According to critics, wahdat al-wujud allows for no distinction between the existence of God and that of the world. Defenders point out that Ibn al-˓Arabi and his followers offer a subtle metaphysics following the line of the Ash˓arite formula: "The attributes are neither God nor other than God." God's "signs" (ayat) and "traces" (athar)—the creatures—are neither the same as God nor different from him, because God must be understood as both absent and present, both transcendent and immanent. Understood correctly, wahdat al-wujud elucidates the delicate balance that needs to be maintained between these two perspectives.
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See alsoFalsafa ; Ibn al-˓Arabi ; Sirhindi, Shaykh Ahmad ; Tasawwuf .
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chittick, William C. "Rûmî and Wahdat al-wujûd." In Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi. Edited by Amin Banani, Richard Hovannisian, and Georges Sabagh. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Wahdat al-Wujud
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See alsoFalsafa ; Ibn al-˓Arabi ; Sirhindi, Shaykh Ahmad ; Tasawwuf .
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chittick, William C. "Rûmî and Wahdat al-wujûd." In Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi. Edited by Amin Banani, Richard Hovannisian, and Georges Sabagh. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Wahdat al-Wujud
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The unity of Being. Doctrine formulated by the school of Ibn al-Arabi, which postulates that God and His creation are one, since all that is created preexisted in God's knowledge and will return to it, making mystical union with God possible. This was a problematic doctrine for legalist interpreters of Islam such as the Wahhabis, who held to a strict interpretation of tawhid that did not permit anyone or anything to be associated or in union with God.
The unity of Being. Doctrine formulated by the school of Ibn al-Arabi, which postulates that God and His creation are one, since all that is created preexisted in God's knowledge and will return to it, making mystical union with God possible. This was a problematic doctrine for legalist interpreters of Islam such as the Wahhabis, who held to a strict interpretation of tawhid that did not permit anyone or anything to be associated or in union with God.
Sufi metaphysics===
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSufi metaphysics is centered on the concept of وحدة waḥdah "unity" or توحيد tawhid. Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this topic. Waḥdat al-wujūd literally means "the Unity of Existence" or "the Unity of Being."[1] Wujūd "existence, presence" here refers to God. On the other hand, waḥdat ash-shuhūd, meaning "Apparentism" or "Monotheism of Witness", holds that God and his creation are entirely separate.
Some scholars have claimed that the difference between the two philosophies differ only in semantics and that the entire debate is merely a collection of "verbal controversies" which have come about because of ambiguous language. However, the concept of the relationship between God and the universe is still actively debated both among Sufis and between Sufis and non-Sufi Muslims.
