Hujwiri's Distinction of Wajd, Wujud, and Tawajud in Sama'
In this chapter of the Kashf al-Mahjub, Hujwiri explains that wajd and wujud are two verbal nouns (masdar) derived from one and the same verb, distinguishable only through their form: wajd carries the sense of grief (anduh), while wujud carries the sense of finding (yaft). Applied to the Sufi path, the two words name two states that arise in the seeker during sama' (spiritual audition): wajd is the state joined to grief at the absence of the beloved (faqd al-mahbub) and being barred from one's aim, whereas wujud is the state joined to the finding and attainment of that aim (husul al-murad). Hujwiri further separates ordinary grief (huzn), which concerns a person's own worldly portion, from wajd, the grief proper to the path. Tawajud is the induced or deliberately sought form of ecstasy, and the chapter arranges these experiences into graded degrees (maratib).
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