Allah, the Almighty, explicitly spoke of the word ‘wujood’ ⁸¹⁴ in the Qur’an; He said:

{…will find Allah Forgiving and Merciful}, [an-Nisâ’ 4:110]

{…they would have found Allah Accepting of repentance and Merciful}, [an-Nisâ’ 4:64]

and

{…but finds Allah before Him…} [an-Noor 24:39]

‘Wujood’ is a word for the attainment of the reality of a matter; it refers to three meanings:

The first is the attainment of the ladunni knowledge ⁸¹⁵ that concludes the demonstrative knowledge ⁸¹⁶ by the authentic Divine disclosure to you. ⁸¹⁷

The second is the real attainment of the Real, a type of attainment that is independent of the signposts. ⁸¹⁸

The third is the attainment of the station of the fading of the attainment by submersion into the antecedence. ⁸¹⁹

⁸¹⁴ The word is a verbal noun that comes from the root, ‘wajada’ (found). It is about finding God or the actualization at the end of the journey. It is more than reaching Him. This would be wuṣool (arrival) and waṣl (connection). In Madârij, Imam Ibn al-Qayyim gives a telling parable of wujood. He mentions a man who set out (qaṣada) to get a treasure, and he traveled (salaka) the right path to it until he arrived (waṣala), but if he were able to possess it and take it back home only then we can say that he attained (wajada) his treasure. Wujood shares the same root with wajd (ecstasy) that was discussed in Station 66. However, wujood is higher and more established than wajd according to the sheikh and the majority.
⁸¹⁵ The source of this knowledge is God Himself, Who bestows it on the heart of the knower.
⁸¹⁶ Not that it will revoke it, but it will make it fade in comparison.
⁸¹⁷ The demonstrative knowledge is based on evidences. This knowledge comes from the Lord; it is compelling and irresistible, and it is a result of spiritual disclosure experienced by the sight of the heart. This refers to the experiential faith, which is higher than faith by persuasion.
⁸¹⁸ Because it is like eyesight, so the signposts are not needed anymore by someone who has reached his or her destination.
⁸¹⁹ Now your attainment of the Real is overwhelmed by your submersion into His antecedence after your soul has travelled back to the time when all these creatures did not exist, and only Allah existed, so you capture that moment and you let it subsume you; then you will not be seeing an ‘attainer’ and an ‘attained,’ but only the One, the Eternal, the Real. All of this, as we explained, is in the realm of mental conceptions.