gayri (Sufism Glossary)

It has been said: All these are flowers gathered from the branch of ru'yet (the vision of the One, i.e., seeing Allah who is al-Wāḥid). In these, with respect to the One (al-Wāḥid), there is nothing that indicates tawhid-i wujudi (the oneness of being). The one who divided the matter of wahdat al-wujūd (the unity of being) into chapters, sections, and further subheadings, and systematized it like the sciences of morphology and grammar, is Shaykh Muhyiddin Arabi. Indeed, he even reserved for himself certain intricate maʿārif (gnoses) found among these topics, and said: The khātam al-nubuwwa (seal of prophethood) takes some sciences and maʿārif from khātam-i walāya (seal of sainthood). By khātam-i walāya al-Muḥammadiyya (the Muhammadan seal of sainthood), he refers to himself. The commentators, in the context of explaining this sentence, have said: If the Sultan takes something from his treasurer, what is diminished from him? In summary, for the realization of fanāʾ (annihilation in God) and baqāʾ (subsistence in God), and for the attainment of minor and major walāya (sainthood), there is no need for tawhid-i wujudi. On the contrary, in the verification of fanāʾ,