HAQIQAH - حقيقة
From the root of حقّ (haqq).
Literally: A true statement. The true and real state, circumstance, or fitrah of a thing. The truth. A fact. The reality. A real being. An essence. Sincerity, especially sincerity in affection and friendship. The essence. Stability.
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. A proper signification of a word, or phrase. An expression of which the figurative meaning is conventionally accepted as literal.
As an Islamic Term: An attribute of Allah. Also, the manifestation of the essence of Allah, apart from His attributes. The annihilation of plurality in that essence. Îmân in the unity of Allah and the confession of it.
According to the âyah (4:105) 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 truths about the universe, nature, mankind, Allah, etc. The word haqiqah is also used to denote the inner dimensions of things upon which all the changing beings, from the particles to the suns, rely; it also denotes the 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 1
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