Fayd فيض
effusion (default in Akbarian cosmology per Chittick convention; the overflowing self-disclosure of the Real that constitutes the differentiated created order without partition or diminution of the source)
Fayd (فيض) — Doctrinally load-bearing in the commentary tradition (Qunawi onward). The Akbarian fayd is differentiated from the Plotinian emanation by its non-diminishing character — the Real does not lose anything by the effusion — and by its frame within the wahdat al-wujud doctrine (the effusion does not produce a second substance; it is the Real’s self-disclosure under the aspect of differentiated multiplicity). “Emanation” is forbidden as a default rendering because it imports the Plotinian assumption of ontological-descent-through-degradation that the Akbarian doctrine deliberately resists. The al-fayd al-aqdas (the Most Holy Effusion — the eternal self-disclosure of the Real to itself, constituting the aʿyan thabita) is a load-bearing Akbarian term that comes up in the Fass Nuh commentary tradition; preserve “Most Holy Effusion” as the canonical English when this paired term appears.
Etymology
[STUB: editor to author etymology, root, and morphological notes.]
Cross-tradition resonance
Related terms across traditions (each relation is a stub the editor expands):
- Proodos (christian-mysticism) — [STUB: editor to expand — shared-procession-frame]
- Shefa (jewish-mysticism) — [STUB: editor to expand — shared-emanative-influx]
Primary sources
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Scholarly literature
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Hekhal Editorial. 2026. "Fayd." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/fayd.
Hekhal Editorial. "Fayd." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition, May 2, 2026, hekhal.org/lexicon/fayd.
Hekhal Editorial. (2026). Fayd. Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/fayd
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