Baqāʾ, remaining or subsistence, is the completion of fanāʾ. Having passed away from self, the seeker is returned, living by God rather than by the ego, sober and active in the world. Junayd taught that this return, not the ecstasy of annihilation, is the mark of the perfected Sufi.
Baqāʾ
Subsistence: the state after passing away, in which the Sufi lives on in God and returns to the world.
Also: Baqa, subsistence