They are those who, by resisting, strive to become sāhib (possessors) of beautiful ḥāl (spiritual states). This kind of tawājūd (self-induced ecstasy) is regarded favorably, for they have cast the world behind their backs. Their tawājūd in pleasantness, consolation, joy, and relief is due to their having set aside comfort and being confronted with the abandonment of familiar things.
The third group consists of weak individuals who are possessors of ḥāl and people of the qalb (the heart), whose wills have been realized. When they become incapable of controlling their limbs and concealing what is within them, they enter a state of tawājūd and cast off a burden they cannot bear. However, they have no means to reject this state. Therefore, their tawājūd is for the sake of relief and consolation. These are from among the people of ḥaqīqa (inner reality), but only those who are weak.
Those who are wājidūn (possessors of wajd, spiritual ecstasy) are divided into three classes: In the first class, along with their wajd, sometimes carnal invitations, human akhlāq (character), and things required by nature and temperament cloud the person's time and cause a change in their state.
Those in the second group are also people of wajd. They become delighted by things resembling wajd that come to them as a result of certain sounds reaching their ears; they enjoy this state, live it, and are enlivened by it. Then, a change occurs in their state of wajd.
The wajd of those in the third group is continuous. This state of wajd has brought them to fanāʾ (annihilation in God). For every wājid (one who experiences wajd) has attained fanāʾ by means of what they have found. In what they experience of wajd, there is no excess in themselves, for during the state of wajd everything is as nothing in their eyes. They have now become annihilated even from their own wajd. (Lunta', 377)
tawājūd–wajd–wujūd
Abū Saʿīd Ārābī has said: Wajd is a disturbing recollection, a fear that brings unease, a rebuke due to sin, a subtle address arising from within, an ishāra (allusion) to a benefit, longing for the absent, sorrow over what has slipped away, regret for past zamān (time), the desire to attain something in the present moment, an invitation to fulfill an obligation, or a heartfelt...