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On lower levels, wujūd is the underlying substance of "everything other than God" (māsiwāAllāh)—which is how Ibn Arabi and others define the "cosmos" or "universe" (al-ʿālam). Hence, in a secondary meaning, the term wujūd is used as shorthand to refer to the whole cosmos, to everything that exists.
Sufi cosmology (Arabic: الكوزمولوجية الصوفية) is a Sufi approach to cosmology which discusses the creation of man and the universe, which according to mystics are the fundamental grounds upon which Islamic religious universe is based.
Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept, such as to existence.Various kinds of monism can be distinguished: Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., in Neoplatonism everything is derived from The One. [1]
Ekam (Tamil: ஏகம், "the supreme oneness") is the term used in Akilathirattu Ammanai, the holy book of the religion of Ayyavazhi, [4] to represent The Ultimate Oneness. In Thiruvasakam -2 it was stated that it was from this Ekam that all objects, including the separate Godheads , Devas and asuras , of the universe formed.
Ik Onkar is the statement of oneness in Sikhism, that is 'there is one God'. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] According to Wendy Doniger , the phrase is a compound of ik ("one" in Punjabi) and onkar , canonically understood in Sikhism to refer to the "absolute monotheistic unity of God". [ 9 ]
The latter ones can carry messages between the heavenly spheres and the sublunary world, appearing in visions. Therefore, the higher angels dwell in higher spheres, while their subordinate angels appear in an intermediary realm. Ibn Sina's explanation might imply an attempt to consider revelation as part of the natural world.
Generally, the Mu'tazilites equated oneness, just like all of God's other attributes, with God's essence. One subset of the Mu'tazilites known as the Bahshamiyya (the group of Mu'tazilites who trace themselves to Abu Hashim al-Jubba'i) appear to have, based on some evidence, described oneness as an attribute of God. However, whether it was a ...
Oneness Pentecostalism, a movement of nontrinitarian denominations; Nondualism; Divine simplicity, a theological doctrine that holds God is without parts; Henosis, a concept in Greek mysticism denoting "oneness" or "unity" Meditative absorption, oneness, Samadhi; Monism, a metaphysical concept in philosophy; Monotheism, the belief that only one ...