ḥaqīqah

ḥaqīqah

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      (Arabic: “reality,” “truth”), in Sufi (Muslim mystic) terminology, the knowledge the Sufi acquires when the secrets of the divine essence are revealed to him at the end of his journey toward union with God. The Sufi must first reach the state of fanāʾ (“passing away of the self”), in which he becomes free from attachment to the earthly world and loses himself entirely in God. After he is awakened from that state he attains the state of baqāʾ (“subsistence”), and aqīqah is revealed to him.

      The Sufis called themselves ahl al-ḥaqīqah (“the people of truth”) to distinguish themselves from ahl ash-sharīʾah (“the people of religious law”). They used the label to defend themselves against accusations by orthodox Muslims that Sufis deviated from Islamic laws and principles laid down in the Qurʾān (Islamic scripture) and Ḥadīth (sayings of Muhammad). Such accusations, the Sufis maintained, were made because the orthodox relied too much on the external meaning of religious texts and did not have the ambition or energy to seek an understanding of the inner meaning of Islam.

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