HAQIQAH - حقيقة

Literally: A true statement; the real and true state, circumstance, or fitrah of a thing; a speech without allegory or metaphor; a truth, fact, reality, stability, or an essence. It also denotes sincerity, especially in affection and friendship.

Etymology: Derived from the Arabic root h-q-q (ح ق ق), which signifies truth, reality, and stability, haqiqah etymologically relates directly to haqq.

In Arabic Rhetoric: Haqiqah refers to the essential meaning of a word or expression, as opposed to its metaphorical meaning (majaz); a literal statement, phrase or word; the proper signification of a term; or an expression whose primary meaning is genuinely maintained.

As an Islamic term: An attribute of Allah and the manifestation of Allah’s essence. It also refers to realising the true essence of existence by piercing through the veils of multiplicity and recognising the absolute oneness of Allah (Ahadiyyah). Îmân in Allah’s unity and its declaration.

As indicated in Surah al-Nisâ, 4:105 1 اِنَّٓا اَنْزَلْنَٓا اِلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ لِتَحْكُمَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ بِمَٓا اَرٰيكَ اللّٰهُ, haqq is the Qur’an, and haqiqah is what the Qur’an reveals to us, such as the immutable truths about the universe, the creational order, mankind, Allah, etc. The word haqiqah also denotes the inner dimensions of things on which all changing beings, from particles to suns, rely, furthermore signifying the profound hikmahs of the Sharî’ah laws.

Each perfection, each ‘ilm, each progress and each science has an elevated haqiqah that relies on one of the Names of Allah. That science, perfection and art find their perfection by relying on that Name, which has numerous veils and various manifestations and different spheres; they become haqiqah. Otherwise, they are deficient shadows in an incomplete form.

For example, mathematics is a science. Its haqiqah and final point are to reach Janâb-i Haqq's Names of ‘Adl and Muqaddîr and to witness with all their majesty the manifestations of those Names with hikmah in the mirror of mathematics.

For example, medicine is a science and also an art. Its final limit and haqiqah: Medicine finds its perfection by relying on the Absolutely Hakîm's Name of Shâfî and seeing that Name's compassionate manifestation on the remedies on the face of the earth, which is His great pharmacy; it becomes haqiqah.

For example, the natural sciences, which discuss the reality of beings, these sciences can be hikmah through seeing the supreme manifestations of Janâb-i Haqq's (Jalla Jalâluhu) Name of Hakîm on things, on their benefits and profits by arranging and nurturing, and through reaching that Name and relying on It. Otherwise, they either transform into superstition, become useless, or open the way to dhalâlah like Naturalist philosophy.

The Twentieth Word – The Second Station

According to the mystery  

وَ اِنْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ اِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِ 2

everything has numerous faces that serve as windows to Janâb-i Haqq. The haqiqah of the universe and all beings relies upon the names of Allah. The haqiqah of everything relies upon one or many Names. Each attribute of things and each art on them also relies upon a Name. Just as each of the sciences relies upon a Name, such as the true science of hikmah upon the name Hakîm, the true science of medicine upon the name Shâfî, and geometry on the name Muqaddir, and so on, so too, the true sciences reach their perfection point through a Name and all the haqiqahs of all sciences and all the haqiqahs of attainments of mankind and all levels of the perfect men rely upon the names of Allah. To a degree that one group of muhaqqiqîn awliyâ have said, “The true haqiqah of things is the names of Allah, while the essences of things are only the shadows of those haqiqahs.” Even on a single living being, only on the outward of that being, nearly twenty embroideries of manifestation of the names of Allah can be seen.

The Thirty-Second Word-Third Stopping-Place