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Ḥaqīqa

Reality or truth: the inner reality of things and of religion, the goal of the Sufi path.

Also: Haqiqa, reality

Sufism and Islamic thought

Ḥaqīqa is the truth realized when the veils are lifted. Sufis describe a triad: the sharīʿa, the revealed law; the ṭarīqa, the path; and the ḥaqīqa, the reality to which both lead. The law is the shell, the path the kernel and the reality the oil, in one image.