Walī (friend of God) and imām (leader) are affiliated with wilāya (spiritual authority). The reason for being named as walī is that the person assumes that station without neglecting the command required by wilāya. If he does not act thus, he is not a walī, but only a ruler who follows his own caprice (one who judges according to his own desires). In the verse: Do not follow [your] desire, lest it lead you astray from the way of Allah (Ṣād, 38:26), this is stated. The breaths, movements, and actions of the walī are numbered. The walī acts only and continually in goodness; this must be so, for he is constantly engaged in something. You see him always engaged only in a virtuous act, among people, and applying the prescribed limits to purify. Purification is goodness. Surely, in ḥaqīqa (inner reality), the Walī is Allah. Whoever is affiliated with wilāya judges by His command, by what He shows, that is, by what is true. (Futūḥāt, IV, 305)
wārid/wāridāt (angelic wārid; satanic wārid; wāridāt of gifts; divine wāridāt)
It is a ḥāl (spiritual state) that comes to and envelops the hearts after bādi (a kind of manifestation). While there may be an effect of human action in the wārid, there is none in the bādi. For the bawādi (pl. of bādi)...