Gaybat al-ʿārifīn (the absence of the gnostics) is to be absent from the Real (al-Ḥaqq) by the Real. In addition to this, there is also the absence of the people of God (ahl Allāh), which is to be absent from creation by the Real. The absence of the great scholars who know Allah is to be absent from creation with creation. They know that only Allah is the truly existent (wujūd). Allah has given form to the rulings of the possible fixed entities (aʿyān thābita). For them, nothing is absent except the form pertaining to the ruling of a particular aspect (ʿayn) of the Real’s existence. They may also be absent from the ruling of the form of another aspect (ʿayn) in the existence of the Real, which grants what the former does not. The fixed entities (aʿyān) and their rulings are creation. Only the existence of the Real (wujūd al-Ḥaqq) ...
gaybat al-ʿārifīn (Sufi Terminology)
Gaybat al-ʿārifīn (the absence of the gnostics) is to be absent from the Real (al-Ḥaqq) by the Real. In addition to this, there is also the absence of the people of God (ahl Allāh), which is to be absent from creation by …