Existence
“wujūd”
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
existence · the Real Existence · al-wujūd · the absolute quiddity that occupies them · the existent · wujūd · الوجود · الوجود الحق
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Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Existence as the wellspring of every good and a real essence rather than a description subsisting in another, so that only what is existence is properly existent and other things are existent by attachment to it.
For the existent, in the view of the verifiers, is that whose reality is existence, and what is other than it does not become existent by way of being so qualified, since existence is not a description subsisting in another but a real essence.
for what was stated just above is that the quiddities are, in their very selves, the effect of the agent — that is, the agent draws in its wake the essence of the effect, and thereafter the intellect abstracts existence from the effect and describes it thereby, as is the view of the Illuminationists (*al-ishrāqīyūn*), and not that the agent makes it qualified by a meaning that is existence, as is …
and existence (*wujūd*) is the wellspring of every good and perfection, while the remaining perfections are branches upon it.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Wujūd, existence: the treatise's master concept, treated not as a predicate shared out among many things but as one individual reality identical with the Necessary, such that everything else is only a consideration, phase or relation of it, and such that being and perfection coincide.
Therefore there is nothing in true, essential existence but one single absolute essence, in which there is no multiplicity except by the multiplicity of its considerations, and in which there is no qualification in any respect whatever;
— Therefore there is nothing there but one single existence, individual and real, in which there is no qualification in any respect whatever;
Once this is settled with you, you know that a thing's perfection is in the measure of the aspects of existence it has, and its deficiency in the measure of the aspects of non-existence it has.