Meaning
Being, existence; a central term of mystic metaphysics, as in wahdat-al-wujood, the unity of being.
Literally: being; existence
Usage & notes
Being or existence — a central term of Islamic metaphysics, and the root of wahdat-ul-wujud (unity of being). In Iqbal's thought existence is not a static, undifferentiated substance but a dynamic, creative process; he reads reality as living, willing and forward-moving, which is part of why he resists a metaphysics that reduces all wujood to a single quiescent unity.
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