the existence of other than Him (Tasawwuf Glossary)

It is nothing other than this. Due to its manifestation through His determinations (taʿayyunāt), and its attribution to contingent beings, it has been named as 'other' (sivā) and 'otherness' (ghayr). The contingent being (everything that is created after not existing) possesses existence only by means of this nisba (relation). Otherwise, existence (wujūd) belongs only to the Essence of the Real (al-Ḥaqq). Contingent beings are [but] the