Mushāhada

مشاهدةmushāhada

Preferred translation
witnessing
Technical sense
direct witnessing of what is present, as against knowing it through a report or an inference

General Technical Meaning

In mystical terminology, mushāhada is witnessing or direct presence after the removal of a veil, distinguished from merely discursive or reported knowledge.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

The treatise uses mushāhada for direct witnessing in its account of disclosure and passing away (fanāʾ); what is witnessed, and what may be concluded from it, depends on the passage.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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Canonical address: /glossary/mushahada/