The ring analogy is generally associated with Ibn ʿArabī and his Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. However, al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī uses this same analogy as a way of expressing various aspects of walāya within his original and multi-layered doctrine of the concept. The present article’s understanding of Tirmidhī’s ring analogy and its relationship to his doctrine of walāya builds upon the work of Radtke and others who have sought to explain the major features of Tirmidhī’s doctrine. The use of the ring analogy by Tirmidhī and Ibn ʿArabī after him leads us to posit a shared mode of thought and expression that helps situate and elucidate Ibn ʿArabī’s esoteric doctrine of walāya within a framework developed by Tirmidhī.

环的类比通常与伊本·阿拉比（IbnʿArabī）和他的富祖阿卡姆（Fuṣūṣal-ḥikam）有关。但是，al-Ḥakīmal-Tirmidhī用同样的类比作为在其概念的原始和多层学说中表达瓦莱雅各方面的一种方式。本文对提尔米第戒的类比及其与瓦拉亚教义的关系的理解是建立在拉德克和其他试图解释提尔米第教义的主要特征的人的著作基础上的。Tirmidhī和IbnʿArabī在他之后使用环比喻，使我们提出了一种共同的思想和表达方式，有助于在Tirmidhī开发的框架中阐明和阐明IbnʿArabī的深奥教义。