Sufi Classics · July 8, 2026

I am Hu (Sufism Glossary)

I am the one who is. I am He. I am He who is He. hu hu/huwa huwa As if I am myself, or as if I am Hu (He), or He is me. O you who suppose! If you are yourself, this does not surprise me. Do not think that right now I am …

I am the one who is. I am He. I am He who is He.

hu hu/huwa huwa

As if I am myself, or as if I am Hu (He), or He is me. O you who suppose! If you are yourself, this does not surprise me. Do not think that right now I am myself! Do not think that I will be myself! Do not think that I have become myself! (It is as if I am nothing but the skin or this state of the gnostic. If you are yourself, there is no harm in this, but you are not me.) (Tawāsīn, 194)

When I have stripped myself of my body

I am He, in witnessing

His being is in my existence

It is the essence of my witnessing

Hu is Allah's absolute (mutlaq) unseen huwiya (essence of "He-ness"). (Kāshānī, 45; Jāmiʿ, 104)

(He) is a substance with two accidents and an essence with two attributes. The reality (ḥaqīqa) of this substance (its huwiya) is knowledge and powers. The two attributes, knowing and wise, circulate in the channels of the powers and emerge outwardly as a triple power... (Insān, I, 7)

hu hu/huwa huwa is what the Real (al-Ḥaqq) has delivered to creation. For He is He; I am He. He is He. (Tawāsīn, 193)

hubb (signs of love; sign of love for Allah; cup of love; wine of love; seeking)

I love you with two loves

One is the love that binds me to you

The love of yours for being worthy of love

The love that binds me to you is because of you

I remember only you, none other

The love for your being worthy of love is

That you lift the veils so I may see you

There is no boasting in these words

Indeed, I do not boast

To boast in either love

I heard from (the woman Sufi) Hayyūna as she said: Whoever loves Allah (the one who loves Allah) finds intimacy with Him; whoever finds intimacy with Him becomes enraptured by His love; whoever is enraptured by His love yearns for Him; whoever yearns for Him becomes mad; whoever becomes mad is mocked; whoever is mocked reaches Him (attains union); (attains union with Him)