Sufi Classics · July 8, 2026

zāhir-i mumkināt (Sufism Glossary)

Zāhir-i mumkināt (the outward aspect of contingent beings; those beings that came into existence after not existing) refers to the manifestation (tajallī) of the Real (al-Ḥaqq) in the forms of the names and attributes of …

Zāhir-i mumkināt (the outward aspect of contingent beings; those beings that came into existence after not existing) refers to the manifestation (tajallī) of the Real (al-Ḥaqq) in the forms of the names and attributes of the contingent beings (mumkināt). This is also called relative existence (izāfī wujūd), and is sometimes referred to as the outward existence (zāhir-i wujūd). (Kāshānī, 165; Jāmiʿ, 89)