GLOSSARY 165

recognition of the Divine Unity: in Sufism it sums up all
levels of the knowledge of Unity.

at tiul: height; figuratively : the spiritual dimension of exaltation.

turiig: plural of tarigah : road or path; designates the spiritual
way, either The Way par excellence or one or other of the
many esoteric ways or methods. Cf. the Sufisaying: “The
ways (turiiq) towards God are as numerous as the souls of
men; i _

al-‘udum : often vocalised as al-‘adam : non-existence, absence,
Non-Being, nothingness. In Sufism this expression includes
ontheone hand the positive sense of non-manifestation, of a
principial state beyond existence or even beyond Being, and
on the other hand a negative sense of privation, of relative
nothingness.

al-‘umq: depth;in a figurative sense : the cosmic abyss.

al-‘Unsur al-a‘zam . the supreme Element, Universal Substance in
its Divine and unfathomable reality.

al-Unmidhal al-farid: the Unique Prototype: applied both to
ar-Riah and to ““Universal Man’’ (al-Insan al-kamil). Some-
times written : Anmidaj.

al-‘urd: breadth ; figuratively : the cosmic amplitude.

al-Wahdah: the Divine Solitude ; stands ontologically between the
Supreme Unity (al-Ahadiyah) and the Distinctive Oneness
(al-Wahidiyah).

wahid: one, alone. See Wahidiyah. Grammatically wahid is the
adjectival form corresponding to the nominal form ahad
(q v.).

al-Wahidiyah : the (Divine) Oneness ; is to be distinguished from
the Transcendent Unity (al-Ahadiyah) which is beyond all
distinctive knowledge whereas the Oneness appears in the
differentiated just as principial distinctions appear in it.

al-wahm : opinion, conjecture, the conjectural faculty, suspicion,
illusion.

al wajd: existential intuition, identification with Being (wwjid),
enstasis.