Arabic · noun · Being & Non-Being

Wujoob

वुजूब

said wu-JOOB

also written: Wujub

Meaning

Necessity of existence, the mode of being of that which cannot not exist, namely God.

Literally: necessity, obligation

Usage & notes

Iqbal grounds all contingent reality in the one necessary Being, the self-existent source on which every striving self ultimately leans.

Related words

Possibility, contingency; the capacity of a thing to be or not to be.

The Necessary Being, whose existence is self-grounded and uncaused; God in philosophical theology.

The contingent being, that whose existence is merely possible and derives from another.