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Hukam

The divine order or will: in Sikh teaching, the command by which all things exist and move.

Also: Hukam, divine will

Jainism, Sikhism and other paths

Hukam is the divine order that governs creation. The Japjī asks how the wall of falsehood can be broken, and answers: by walking in the way of the hukam. To accept it is to cease resisting reality from the standpoint of ego. Sikhs also call the daily reading taken at random from the scripture a hukamnāmā.