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I1969
II1970 McGill III1969
Dr. Mehdi Muaqqiq, Dr.
Herman Landolt McGill
1968
wujd
irfn /
1971.2.20
1
1
alienation
the existential and metaphysical aspects
the basic
structure itself of Islamic metaphysics
uniformity
metaphilosophy
unity of
existence unity of
existence 11-12
Ibn Arab1165-1240 13 16-17
16-17
adr al-Dn Shrz1571-1640
Moll adr
culminating and all-synthesizing point
1969.6-7
The Alienation of Morden Man
existencewujdbeing
existencewujdbeing
the world of relative and transient things
the reality
of existenceexistence / wujd
accidentality of existence
Avicenna980-1037Ibn Sn12
Ibn Rushd1126-1198Aveeroes
Thomas Aquinas
existence / wujd
Flb872-950
quiddity / mhyah
accident / ara
substance
property
accident
essence
whitenesscoldness
brownness
the extra-mental,
objective reality
-
self-subsistent substance
-shadow-picture
illusion
waking
experiencethe world of reality
a corresponding piece of
reality
an inner
modificationone of its self-determinations
essences
being-a-table
being-a-flower
human consciousness
total transformation of itself
the dimension of ordinary cognition
the world of beingsolid
self-subsistent thingsessence
ontological core
5
awareness
selfsame Reality
existence
2
rational reasoning
a very peculiar kind of intuition
object
existence in its reality
actus essendi
6
14 3 0aydar mul
aql afafkr rakkah
13-14 Mamd
Shabastar
Gulshan-e Rzv.114
2
3
Cf. Moll adr: al-Shawhid al-Rubbyah, ed. Jall al-Dn shtiyn, Mashhad, 1967, p.14.
Cf. his Rislah Nadq al-Nuqd, ed. Henry Corbin and Osman Yahya, Teheran-Paris, 1969, p.625.
5
Lhj 4
sheer
nothing
light in its true reality
reflections7
5 1
2nrill
the pure
reality of existence
shadowy figures
wholly unreal
a pure
illusion
consciousness 8
8
the underlying Reality
the phenomenal form
self-manifestationself-determination
philosophy of existence
inner witnessing / shuhd
tasting / dhawq
presence
/ urillumination / ishrq
the subject of
cognition
ego-consciousness
the empirical ego
seeing by self-realization
the subsistence of the individual ego
be it
his own existencethe empirical selfhood
ego-consciousnessthe Consciousness
of Reality
Consciousness which is Reality
fan/ annihilation
9
tawd
unification
an absolute concentration of the mind in deep
8
9
Lawi, ed. M.H. Tasbi, Tehran, 1342 A.H., p.19.
meditationtakhl
desire and will
knowledge and cognition
9
fan
the
metaphysical Reality itself
the self-actualization of Reality
the
dropped-off-mind-and-body / datsu raku shin jinbaq
10
Ibid., p.19.
Cf. Nihat Keklik: Sadreddin Konevnin Felsefesinde Allah, Kint ve Insan, Istanbul, 1967, pp. 6-9.
12
datsu raku shin jinDgen1200-1253
11
survivaleternal
remaining in absolute Reality with absolute Reality
the pseudo-ego or the relative selfNothingness
is resuscitated
an absolute Self
a pseudo-determination
baq
so many determinations of one single
Reality
the seething world of becoming
unitymultiplicity
11
unification / jamgathering
all-things-being-put-together
the unification of unification / jam al- jam
separation
after unification / farq bad al- jamsecond separation / farq thn
13
impermanenttransient
constantly changing
the principle of universal impermanence
the world of multiplicity
farq
essential
demarcations
14
existential annihilation
phenomenal consciousness
pre-fan
an
14
Eranos
an internally articulated
Unitycoincidentia
oppositorum
Lhj
15
man of two eyes /
dhu al-aynayn
14
determined
individualizedessentially delimited
non-existent
15
1130-1200tai chi
94
11
nothing
unreal / bil
nothingness
subsists
-
Mamd ShabastarGulshan-e Rz
bright night amidst
the dark daylight / shab-e roushan miyn-e rz-e trik16
Reality
15
spiritual hierarchy
1the
common people / awmmmen of reason / dhawu al-aql2
the privileged people / khawmen of intuition / dhawu
al-ayn3the privileged of all privileged people / khaw
al-khawmen of reason and intuition / dhawu al-aql
wa-al-ayn
17
16
17
-
by their
very mode of existenceSomething
self-revealing Something
Jm 18
16
19
seeing as
seeing
technique
aspect-blindness 20
Something-beyond
an absolute Other
18
13
men of
externality / ahl-e hir
awal
17
immediate vision
existent
mysheer illusion
illusion-producing principle
21
-
the vision of the Absolute
the coincidentia
oppositorum of Unity and Multiplicity
18
22
absoluteness / ilq
21
22
unification
of existence / tawd wujd23
non-existent / adam
shunsg. shanaffairs
internal modes of beingexistential
perfections / kamlt
virtues/te in relation to the way/dao24
myriads of
self-determinations
in
its original Unitythe very
nature of the Absolute
23
24
Ibid., pp.113-115.
Cf. my The Key Philosophical Concepts in Sufism and Taoism, II, Tokyo, 1967, pp.122-123.
15
self-manifestation / tajall
adhysa superimposition
Nirgua Brahman
ignorance / avidy
Reality
the self-subsistently real
ontological core
svabhva / self-nature
wadat al-wujd
anti-essentialismessencesquiddities
the position of the fictitious
borrowed existence
appearance
2126
25
26
27
qua letters
22
can
even be intuited as such, in its eternal Unity and absolute unconditionality
the condition of
unconditionality itself 29
30
28
mind-natureself-subsistent entity
fan
ego-less
self-subsistence
27
Gulshan-e Rz (op.cit.), p.19.
28
Cf. 0aydar mul: Jmi al-Asrr (op.cit). pp.106-107.
29
l bi-shar maqsam
the quality of being -unconditional
Mystery of Mysteries
-wu or
non-existencewu wu--non-non-existence
30
Jmi al-Asrr (op.cit.), pp.161-162.
17
31
23
32
parabrahman / Supreme
Brahmanwu chi / Ultimateless
God
in the form of
MultiplicitySomething24
Ibid., pp.206-207.
Ibid., pp.207-209.
18
principle of creativity
existential
experience
19
25
existentialism
Sabzawrwadat al-wujd
Mull adr
existence
wujdexistence
Existenzexistence
33
ishtirk-e laf
26
33
ishtirk-e lafhomonymy
20
supra-personaluniversal
existence
wujd
27
the most
fundamental vision or experience of existence
irfn
one and the same root experience, or primary vision, of the reality of existence
alt al-wujd
mawjd
existentthat-which-isthat-which-exists
das Seiende
the ultimately
real things
real reality
the pre-eminent
realprimary substances
that-which-is
das Seiendemawjd that-which-is is
that-which-is
28
is das Sein
be Existence
be
the sky is blue
is
21
is
to be to exist
be existence
nothingmy head is empty
is
the whole plenitude of existence
existence
is
is is absolute reality
awarenessbe
29
quiddityexistence
mountain-ness
quiddity
actual presence
the
pre-conceptual structure of reality as it really is in the external world
22
Reality
the absolute Reality
internal modifications
phenomenal formsthe
empirical dimension of human experience
self-limitationself-determination
particular
30
irfn
12 1155-1191
1165-1240
19
Shar-e Manmah
31
Nausee
Roquintin
23
32
24
33
dehumanizing
dehumanized
25
35
Metaphilosophy
wadat al-wujd
36
a metaphilosophy of philosophies
sub-structures
26
the
key-concepts of Oriental philosophy
wadat al-wujd
wadat al-wujd
typical patternarchetypal form
37
wadat al-wujd
in a purely formal sense
wadat al-wujd
wadat al-wujd Oneness of
Existence
wadat al-wujd an original
metaphysical visionan intuition of
the reality of existence / wujd
existence
common-sense notionordinary,
empirical consciousness
a transcendental consciousness
Kind
FlbAvicennaAverros
27
in the sense of the act of existing
wujd
38 mawjd
wujd
wujd
wadat al-wujd
wadat al-wujd
substances
wadat al-wujd
39
wadat al-wujd
the structure of
the external reality
28
a self-subsistent substance
wadat al-wujd
the real ultimate subject
adjectives or
adjectival
the sole reality
Brahman being
existenceSatall-pervasivenon-temporal
existent
existence
being-a-flowera special
self-determination of this absolute Indeterminate
40
an absolutely simple unityan absolute
indiscrimination
illusoryShankara
Advaita Vedanta
the underlying pure unity of Brahman
illusory forms superimposed / adhysa
a thoroughgoing anti-essentialism
alat al-mhyah
quidditiesa
fundamental realityTa Cheng ChI Hsin Lun 34The Awakening of Faith in
Mahayana
jan fa 35
34
35
29
the Mind-Nature
appearance
super-impositions
wadat al-wujd
41
essentialismexistentialism
quidditiesessences
something that
exists mawjd ens actus essendi
existence/wujd
an attribute or property
a transcendental existentialism
an ecstatic, mystical intuition of Reality
a
transcendental consciousness in the depths of concentrated meditation
tathatchen ju 36 shin-nyoTathat
suchnesschen ju-truly-such
/
being as it really is
existence as it naturally is
contemplation
36
30
fan baq
wadat al-wujd
fanextinction
something being annilhilated nirva
Brahmantman
objectification
the Mind-Nature or
Mind-Reality
ego-consciousness
the absolute Consciousness
their
original existential indetermination
a fundamental functional
correlation43
nothingness
31
Oneness or Unity
one single piece with
no articulationchaoshun tun
37
Moll ar
self-subsistence
connections / rawbi maah
avidyname-and-form / nma-rpa
baq
Baqremainingsurvival
Nothingness
baq
wadat al-wujd
wujd itibr fictitious existence wujd majz
metaphorical or transferred existence
sheer nothing
relation / ifah
illuminative relation
/ ifah ishrqiyah
partial realities
Brahman
37
32
Viveka Cmani
521
vyvahrika
45
sat-krya-vda
Brahman-as-world
wadat al-wujd aqq
khalq
al-Insn al-Kmil /
The Perfect ManAbd al-Karm al-Jl
creaturescreated things
creatureliness / khalqyah
divine
Nature
14
0aydar mul
46Jmi al-Asrr
38
38
Jmi la-Asrr wa-Manba al-Anwr, ed. Henry Corbin & Osman Yahya, Teheran-Paris, 1969, p. 161, 310,
pp.206-207, 397.
33
quiddities / mhyt
39
fictitious
/ itibr
realities /
aqiq
47
men of two
eyes / dhu aynayn
existence/wujdone
single reality/aqqah
manifestation-forms
self-unfolding or self-manifestation
39
perfect uniformity
recognizable
archetypal
1
2
bin
the self-concealing
hir the
self-revealing
- an absolute
Unknown-Unknowable
48
dht al-wujd-existence-itself
dht Allh
the very Essence of God
ghaib
40
Wu chitai chi
35
aadiyah
absolute Oneness
aadiyah49aadiyah
Dd Qayar
aadiyah-
aadiyahdht al-wujd-
internal articulationaadiyah
transcendence
absolute Nothingness
ahayb al-ghuyb/Mystery beyond Mysteries
41
hsan chih yu hsan
Mystery of Mysteries
4 --wu-wu-wu
--Non-Non-Non-Being
Non-BeingNon-( Non-Being)
aadiyah-Non-{Non-( Non-Being)}
42
aadiyah
aadiyah
aadiyah
the first self-determination / taayyun
awwal50
the Way
36
aadiyah
the
most sacred Emanation / fay aqdas
WidyahUnity
aadiyah Widyah
unity or oneness
aadiyah
Widyah
aadiyah
Widyah
Unity
Multiplicity
51
Widyah
love/ubb
0dith Quds44
Kuntu kanzan makhfiyan, fa-ababtu an urafa, fa-khalaqtu
al-khalaqa li-kiay urafa
aadiyah
aadiyah 45
aadiyahultimate Source or Ground
aadiyah
pure oneness
aadiyah
44
0dith Quds
aadiyahdht al-wujd-widyah
aadiyah
dht al-wujd
widyah
widyah
45
37
52
a moving drive
phenomenal evolvement
self-manifestation / tajalli
aadiyah 46
widyahwidyah
widyah
asm wa-ift
Konwledge/ilmdivine Consciousness
widyahessential Perfections /
kamlt dhtyah
eternal archetypes / ayn
thbitahhir
bin
existence-as-conditioned-by-being-something
53
descent
sacred
Emanation / fai muqaddas aadiyah widyah
Nothingness
46
54
-
l bi-shar
other / ghayr
55
2aadiyahabsolute Oneness
1-
=a
2=b2
3
3
d
=c
4
40
57
19
19
12
1970
Reality
Ocean of Beingspiritual
eye / barahthe secrets of Being
19
58
Avicenna / Ibn
Sin, 980-1037Awerroes / Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198
Frb, 872-950
41
afaw
Dynasty 47
48
59
ikmat 49
50 theo-sophiatheosophy
19
51
12
52
Ab al-\asan al-Bahmaniyr
Kitb al-Tal
53
Ab al-Abbs al-LawkarBahmaniyrBayn al-\aqq bi-4amn al-idq
cf, Al b. Zayd al-Bayhaq: Tatinmah iwn al-\ikmah, ed. Shaf, Lahore, 1935, p. 120.
54
Nar al-Dn al-s
1Shamsyah
Kitb al-Shamsyah fi-l-Qawid al-Maniqyah2Kitb
al-\ikmah al-Ayn,
55
Nar al-Dn al-s
42
1037
al-Ghazl / Algazel, d. 1111
56
al-Ishrt wa-al-Tanbht
Tajrd al-Aqid
57
61
supra-consciousness
1165-1240
1155-1191
58
the path of Sanctity, i.e. via mystica
59
the Illuminationist / ishrq
60
existnece / wujd
a subjective view-point
62actus
essendithe reality or Reality
56
Fakhr al-Dn al-Rz, d. 1209
57
58
Murat 111, Opera Metaphysica et Mystica, ed. Henry Corbin, vol. I Istanbul Leipzig, Deutsche
Morgenlndische Gesellschaft, 1945p. 361.
59
Ibid.:
60
Three
Muslim SagesCambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1964pp.52-82; M. M. SharifA History of Muslim
Philosophy, vol. I, Shihb al-Dn Suhraward MaqtlWiesbaden, O. harrassowitz, 1963pp.372-398.
43
nrdegrees
stagesthe Light of all lights/nr al-anwr
Darkness /ulmah
nr/luminous
self-minifesting in itself and bringing others into
manifestation / hir bi nafsi-hi wa-muhir li-ghayri-hi
the Presence/ur
62
63
theophanic visions
wadah al-wujdmanyone
61
Cf. \ikmah al-Ishrq ed. Henry Corbin, Opera Metaphysica et Mystica, vol.II (Paris- Thran,
Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1952) pp.10-11.
62
A Comparative Study of The Key Philosophical
Concepts in Sufism and Taoism, 2volumes (Tokyo, Keio Univ., 1966-67),
44
63
al-Qshn
64
wujd bat
existence
pure and simple qua existence
64
entityNothingness
non-existence
Existence
Existence
the world of Being
Oriental Nothingness
unfolded existence
everspreading existence
wujd munbasi
65
63
pp.
83-121
64
66
19
19
19
20 Jacques Maritain
Neo-Thomists
13
doctrine of the priority of existence
67
66
68
Existentialistsexistential spot of actuality
in
and through the innermost heart of human existence
existence as actualized in its pure subjectivity
supra-consciousness
66
presence/urLight/nrreality
knowledge
70 67
visions
ltre-pour-soiltre-en-soi
1
2
69
68
mafhm
self-evidence/badhah
is
exists
badhx x
69
mafhm
/
to be/Sein
48
Beingmawjd
/that which is
existentdas Seiende ; ensBeing
wujd
to-beexistence
das Seinesseactus essendi
existent/ensexistence/esse
72
70
existencethe act of existing
73
Dr. F.
Rahman 74
Kitb al-Shif, Metaphysics, Book I,
ch.5
mawjd
71
73
Le livre des pntrations mtaphysiquesop.cit., p.62. Moll adr
opra une rvolution qui dthre la vritable mtaphysique de ldessence, dont le regne durait depuis des sicled,
depuis Frb, Avicenne et Sohraward. Meme sil nest pas impossible den dceler anterieurement les indices
prcurseurs. Cet acte rvolutionnaire a chez Moll adr sa vertu propre, car il commande toute la structure de sa
doctrine.
74
Essence and Existence in Avicenna, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, vol. IV(London, The Warburg Institute,
London University, 1958) p.4.
72
49
existent/ens
71wujdexistence/esse
75
existent/mawjd
quiddity/mhyah
existence/esse
mawjdwujd
72
Shar-e Manmeh
Kitb al-Najt
wujd
existence/wujd
existent/mawjd 76
75
mawjd
mawjd wujd
mawjd
esse entia
substancesaccidents
a priori
77 73
/is
perceive
existent/mawjd
thing/shay
alah
wujd
mawjd
74
77
78
Ab al-Barakt al-Baghdd, \ibat Allh b. Malk 1165
I. p.3Pines
Etudes sur Awad al-Zamn Ab al-Barakt al-Baghdd, Revue des tudes juives, III, 1938.
51
79 75
alahmafhm
aqqah
mhyah 80
quiddity
quiddity
76vi
79
52
16
notion/mafhm
awareness
mafhm 77
mafhm
mawjdtwujd
quiddiy/mhyah81
82
81
quiddity particularmhyah
mhyah
82
al-Ishrt wa-l-Tanbiht, vol. I, ed. Sulaymn Duny, Cairo, Marif, 1960 202
wujdniexistence in reality / wujd fi-al-ayn
modes of existence
real/ayn
external/khrij
in concreto
mental/dhihnshadowy/ill
Zayd
78
donnes
immdiates de la conscience
be represented
as it really is
x
y
z
x
y z
wujdexistences/wujdt
particular acts of existing
quiddity
in concreto
existence of
ofrelational reference[of]
54
existencs-of
79
84
85
86 80
man exists
87
88
84
85
86
Rishah li-al-muallim al-thn fi jawb masl suila an-h, given in the Cairo deidtion of al-Jam bayna
Afln wa-Arisls (al-Sadah, 1907) p.57, 16.
87
88
yanbaghi an yakn man al-ukum bi-wujdi-hiN. RescherDieterici
[]Studies in Arabic
Philosophy (Pittsburgh. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1966)
55
1positive quality
2
N. Rescher 89
91
essential
properties
82
knowledge by acquaintanceknowledge
by description92
93
89
Ibid.
Tahfut
al-Tahfut, ed. Sulaymn Duny, Cairo, Marif, 1964vol II, p.80.
91
Tahfut al-Tahfut, op. Cit., pp. 324-326.
92
B. Russell: The Problems of Philosophy (Oxford, Univ. Press, first edition, 1912),
charpter V.
93
Mashir, op. cit. pp. 11-12.
90
56
thingness / shayah
being-possible / mumkinyah94 95
occur / ur
being
qualified / ittif
whiteness
qualified83
whiteness / bay
being-a-universal / kullyah
al-insn kull 96
Being-possible
possibleimkn
having been caused
having a cause for its existence
95
being-necessary / wjibyahbeing-one / wadah
96
man is a species / al-insn maw
57
qualification
being-fatherpaternity
84
being-possible
being-a-thing
being-existent
existences / wujdt
which
is determined and delimited quiddity-wise in the form of particular existences
self-determinationself-delimitation
85
58
self-evidence / badhah
disclosure
presence
supra-consciousness
La
nause 97
86
EssentiaExistentia
essentiaexistentia
essentiaexistentia
Louis de Raeymaeker 98
essentia existentia
d. 947/950
980-1037
real
97
59
distinction
87
existences
quiddity
a two-fold ontological
principle
99 zawj tarkb
duality
act of existing
unity
multiplicity 100
88esse
101
99
100
60
existent qua
existent / to on on
7
102 essence / si
what-is-it-ness / to ti estin
quiddity
103
essence
to existexistent
89
104
-what-a-thing-is-that-it-exists
essencesexistents
102
92, a, 34-35.
anq
104
92. b. 4-18.
103
61
unity
1=2
=3=4=
107
existent / to on
one / to hen
principle
cause
being
one
108 91
105
106
62
rioccurslzim
inseparable or essential attribute
concomitantriara 109
accidental property of a
substratum
ri
occurringhappenning
ri
112
-what-ness
ipso facto/-is-ness
113
114 93
quiddities
109
ara
Fu al-ikam. ikmat-i-Ilh II, by Prof. Muiy al-Dn Mahd Qumshi (Teheran,
muasseseh-yi Mabut-I Islm, 1345 A. H.) pp.5-6.
111
wujdhuwyah
1
al-taaqquq al-khrijal-aqqah al-juziyah2
huwyahwujd
112
wa-l (huwyatu-hu) dkhilah f mhyati-hi
113
114
110
63
being-an-animal
being-a-body
-is-ness
concomitant 115
116
117
94
actualization
cause
causednecessary
118
an Origin
115
concomitant / lzim
116
after/bada
117
12
118
64
95
ri
Source
96
119
119
120
1
2aqqah
121
122 -
being-man / insnyah
123
-
97
sense-perception 124
added to / zid
essentialistic 125
existent /mawjd
F. Rahman
98
126
120
121
126
Essence and Existence in Avicenna, p. 13.
66
nature / abah
natural universal / kull ab
per se
bi-m hiya tilka al-mhyah, or min ayth hiya hiya
[]1
itibrt thalthah
127 itibritibrt
subjective manner of looking at
itibr
99
necessary existentpossible existents
127
ail
itibrmentally posited
a concrete extra-mental piece of reality
128100ailitibr
1 ail
2 ail
itibr
3 ail
itibr
Amad As, d.
1640 129 Shayism
principality of existence / alat al-wujd
itibritibr
129
Imd Zdeh Ifahnir Mzandarnikmat-i-B Ali Sn, III (Teheran, Sahm, 1377 A. H.)
p.13, 16.
130
Badi al-ikam
131
ikmat-i-B Ali Sn, I, pp.364-375; p.385. II, pp.352-400.
68
1
in the particular sence / bi-al-man
al-akha mhyahm huwa
m hiyamhyah
2
the real
quiddity mhyah
mhyah
mawjd
1--being-a-stonestoneness
2being actualized
132
quiddtiy
essence
69
ail
ail itibr
ail itibr
ail
alat al-wujd
nothing
70
104
133
ail
itibr
existences
subjective qualitiesexistences
Existence
136 105
a unique self-subsistent entity
difination
essence one single
actualization 137
133
136
Mashir, p.4, no.4:
137
Ibid., p.5, no.4:
134
71
experience of
Existence
Shar-e Manmeh
139
ailail
unity/ wadah
writer
unitysameness
externally existent
object / misdq
141
138
141
Cf. Taq al-mul: Durar al-Farid, I (Teheran, Markaz-e Nashr-e Kitb, 1377 A.H.) p.39.
139
72
ail
itibr
multiplicitydiversity
itibr
107
ABAB
fire-nessbeing-fire
itibr
AB
precedence
AB
or priority142
priorposterior
143
more or less man
being-man
AB
ABfire-ness
A
B
AB
108
AB
142
causal
priority
143
I, 5, 3b-4a.
73
actualization
quiddities
realities
itibr
109 ail
A
intensityB
ABweakness
A
BA
AB
itibr
74
144
110
in concreto
145
146
itibr
quiddity as it actually is / mhyah ka-m hiya
unity 147
148 111
anq
existences
149
144
145
kitb al-Talwt, ed. II. Corbin: Opera Metaphysica et Mystica, I (Istanbul. Deutsche Morgenlndische
Gesellschaft, 1945) p.22, 12:
146
Ibid., p.23:
147
Ibid., p.23.
148
Qub al-Dn al-Shrz, d.1311lithograph
ed. Teheran, 1315 A.H.
149
Talwt p.22.13:
75
150
112
itibr
itibr
151
itibr
113
150
151
pp.189-191.
76
rational
aspects or modes / jiht aqlyah
152 possibility / imkn
oneness / wadah
form / rah
realities
153
actualizations / huwyt
154
mumkin
aynin concreto
114
155
156
X X
152
153
77
attribute / ifah
accident / ara
157 115
1
2
-being-particular
thing-ness / shayyah - -
being-a-thing
itibr
itibr
116
wujd-mawjdyah
158
non-existent / madm
--existence-being-existent
/ mawjdyah al-wujd
157
158
Shaykh al-Ishrqyah
117
spiritual-metaphysical Light / nr
the sole Reality
the
structure of Existence
the luminous
Reality
alah
118
alah al-mhyah
mhyah159 mhyah
159
mhyah
79
alah
accidentality of existence
1314
quasi
constitutum per principia essentiae164
Talqt
accident / araattribute / ifah
160
164
Op. cit., lect. 2.
165
Cf. for example his Summa Contra Gentiles 1, 21, ed. Marietti.
80
166
167
120
praedicabile
praedicamentale
ens
contingenspredicable
ara mm
predicamental accident
ens in alio
ens in alio
predicamental or categorical
ens in alio
locus
being existent
168 121
166
Cf. Commentary on Aristotles Metaphysics, I, ed. Bouyges (Beirut, Univ. Saint Joseph) p.313, 315.
P. G. M. Manser: Das Wesen des Thomismus (Freiburg [Schweiz] St Pausdruckerei, 1935) p.469:
168
F. Rahman; op.cit., pp.10-11.
167
81
occurrence
being
being in
the intellcetrational existence 169
being in the external world
170
121
being
171
wujd dhihn
171
Nar al-Dn al-: Commentary on Avicennas al-Ishrt wa-al-Tanbht, III, pp.462-463:
172
Mashr, p.27, no.71.
173
Ibid.
170
82
unification / ittid
123occurring
occurrence / ur
possibles
benot-be
a cause in actu
necessary-by-something-other-than-itself / wjib
bi-al-ghayr
nothing
being 174
175
124
174
175
Ab-l-Brakt 176
1by itselfout of itself
non-existencenothing
177
125
178
occurs / yari
ara
ifah
Bahmaniyr b. Marzbn 179 d. 1066
ifah
reality
176
84
ifah Bahmaniyr
al-Talqt
existence
for their substrata 180 126
181
182
extrinsic
-
intrinsic
127
-being-father
occurrence / urqualification
180
181
182
Al-Talqt, quoted by Mull adr in the Mashir p. 34,83.
85
/ ittif
-
-
onts on
determinationslimitations
modifications
128
183
pre-existing
183
extrinsic
determinations intrinsic
determinations
William Carlo 184
Carlo
a self-determination or
self-limitation129
Carlo
specifiation
Carlo
variously limited
manifestations of the all-embracing act of existence
184
185
130
attributive existence
immediate witnessing
an immediate
vision
Jean-Paul Sartre
ishrq
186
131
187
essence
table-ness
188
186
La nause, p.160.
Ibid., pp.161, 162.
188
Ibid., pp.161, 162.
187
88
to be
belonging
132
189
Etienne Gilson descending ecstasies /
une extase vers le bas
a
self-evident
133
189
existence-of
man arf
cfard mm190
general / mm all-comprehensive
all-inclusivethe
totality of all external existential realities
unity
diversified
multiplicity
unitywujd munbasi
unfolded existence
martib
d
particular units / afrd khah
134
ab
cd
nothing
something limitied or
determineddetermining limit
191
190
subjective attitudeitibr
existent / mawjd
multiplicity
193
multiplicity
unityShaykh
Muammad Taq mul 194
phenomenal forms
itibr
unity
mul
are
need / faqr,
being-necessary
Pahlaw
192
Mashir, p.28,71-72.
Shar-e Manmeh, v. 36.
194
Durar al-Farid, I, pp.87-88.
195
193
91
136
existences
portions
bd
itibr
X
Z
XYZ
/existent
unity
multiplicityJall al-Dn al-Dawwn
137
Pahlawfahlawyn
onemany
coincidentia oppositorumunity being
multiplicitymultiplicity being unity
92
existents
1
21
3
1
2
Kitb al-Asfr
196
being-man
multiplicitydiversity
reflection
pseudo-reality
reflectimitate138
effluences / ishrqt
being-related-to
unity
196
139
realities
irf al-wujd
quiddities
oneness
-
oneness
tashkk
tashkk
-
caused140-
non-material being
94
197
1
tashkk
kh2tashkk mm
identical with
each other
2 2000
2 2000
-being-existent
-being-existent
-being-existent
141
realities
non-existencenothing
unitymultiplicity
mental aspects /
itibrt
198 multiplicity
luminous multiplicity kathrah nrnyah
multiplicity of darkness / kathrah
ulmnyah
197
198
95
Giles
uniform
Giles
Omnehabet essentiam realiter differentem ab esse, et per aliud est ens et
per aliud existens: 199142
self-subsistant
200
others
quiddities
-
wide
expanse
non-composite
143
199
Theoremata de Esse et Essentia, XIII (Louvain, Museum Lessianum, 1930) p.78, quoted by W. Carlo, op. cit.,
p.61, n. 7.
200
Shar-e Manmeh, ad. vv. 34-35.
96
universal comprehensiveness / shuml
all-inclusive
1
onemany
201
315
wujd munbasi
breath of Mercifulness / nafas
ramn 202
144
appear
descends / tanazzul
existential Mercy
203
201
Mashir, p.8,12.
A Comparative Study of the
Key Philosophical Terms in Sufism and Taoism, vol. I, Ibn Arab (Tokyo, Keio Institute of Clutural and Linguistic
Studies, 1966).
203
Cf. Bad al-Mulk MirzMashirin Le livre des pntrations mtaphysiques, op. cit., p.90.
202
97
multiplicity
unity
itibr-ness
204
205
145
real light
/ nr aqqah206 reality of existence
/ aqqatu al-wujd
aqqah nrnyah
bi-shar lnegatively-conditioned
l bi-shar non-conditionedbi-shar shay
conditined-by-something
1
purified / mujarradah
2absolute /
mulaqah
3mixed / makhlah
146
bi-shar l
204
205
98
207
l bi-shar
unity
in potentia
147
I al-wujd bi-shar l
II
al-wujd l bi-shar
III al-wujd bi-shar shay
essence
207
self-revealing
wujd kh
208 148
actus
itibr
existents
209
ghayb majhl
kanz makhf
208
Shar-e Manmeh, v. 3.
Cf. shiyn: op. cit., p.157, 193.
209
100
149
101