Arabic · noun · Being & Non-Being

Wahdat-ul-Wujood

वहदत-उल-वुजूद
said vah-dat-ul-vu-jood
also written: Wahdat-ul-Wujud, wahdat al-wujud, wahdat-ul-wujud, unity of being
Meaning

The doctrine of the Unity of Being, that all existence is a single reality identical with God.

Literally: the unity / oneness of being

Usage & notes

The metaphysics, associated above all with Ibn Arabi, that all existence is ultimately one reality — God — of which the world is the self-disclosure. Iqbal engaged it deeply but grew critical of its tendency, as popularly received, to blur the distinction between Creator and creature and to encourage a self-dissolving quietism. He generally favoured the corrective wahdat-ush-shuhud, which preserves the reality and responsibility of the individual self.